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Downstep and Floating tone

Shortcuts: Differences, Similarities, Jaccard Similarity Coefficient, References.

Difference between Downstep and Floating tone

Downstep vs. Floating tone

Downstep is a phenomenon in tone languages in which if two syllables have the same tone (for example, both with a high tone or both with a low tone), the second syllable is lower in pitch than the first. A floating tone is a morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains no consonants, no vowels, but only tone.

Similarities between Downstep and Floating tone

Downstep and Floating tone have 3 things in common (in Unionpedia): Article (grammar), Bambara language, Tone (linguistics).

Article (grammar)

An article (with the linguistic glossing abbreviation) is a word that is used with a noun (as a standalone word or a prefix or suffix) to specify grammatical definiteness of the noun, and in some languages extending to volume or numerical scope.

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Bambara language

The Bambara (Bamana) language, Bamanankan, is a lingua franca and national language of Mali spoken by perhaps 15 million people, natively by 5 million Bambara people and about 10 million second-language users.

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Tone (linguistics)

Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.

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Downstep and Floating tone Comparison

Downstep has 10 relations, while Floating tone has 13. As they have in common 3, the Jaccard index is 13.04% = 3 / (10 + 13).

References

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