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Nov 29, 2009
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ton•eme



Pronunciation: (tō'nēm), [key]
—n.
a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language: Swedish has two tonemes.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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