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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

ton•eme n.

a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language:Swedish has two tonemes.

tone + -eme 1920–25

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

toneme / ˈtəʊniːm/

a phoneme that is distinguished from another phoneme only by its tone

Etymology: 20th Century: from tone + -emetoˈnemic

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