Assertion: tone | /r/HasProperty | ignored
Facets:
value: simply
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Tone may simply be ignored, as is possible even for highly tonal languages: for example, the Chinese navy has successfully used toneless pinyin in government telegraph communications for decades.
text: In all, there are only about 400 different syllables when tone is ignored, and about 1300 when tone is included.