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Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 days agoNon-tonal simply means the denotation isn’t carried by tone.
John McWhorter has a few courses in The Great Courses catalog about language - its pretty fascinating stuff. He covers things like tonal languages, and how even for a linguist like himself, they’re tough to learn.