Tonal

Tonal may refer to:

Tonal (mythology), a concept appearing in the belief systems and traditions of Mesoamerican cultures, involving a spiritual link between a person and an animal
tonal language, a classification of languages where some combination of high-low pitch has a phonemic distinction
tonality, a system of writing music involving the relationship of pitch to some centered key

Tonal is a concept within the study of Mesoamerican religion myth folklore and anthropology A tonal language is a language that uses tone to distinguish words Tonality is a system of Music in which specific hierarchical pitch relationships are based on a key "center" or tonic.

Dictionary

-adjective

of, or related to tones or tonality
(music) employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic
(linguistics) employing differences in pitch to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise similar words

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