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5 letters · New York Times · Tuesday, December 19, 1995 · 40-Across
Appeared in 1 New York Times Crossword: Tuesday, December 19, 1995.
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employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words; "Chinese is a tonal language"
adjective
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