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Tonemic

Refers to the underlying, distinctive units of a tonal system in a language. Tones of a tonal language are often referred to by numbers ("tone 1," "tone 2," and so on), and each tone has an idealized, specific tone level or contour that is considered to be its tonemic value. The term was created by analogy with phonemic.

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