tonal language definition
â¢ TONAL LANGUAGE (noun). The noun TONAL LANGUAGE has 1 sense: 1. a language in which different tones distinguish different meanings. Familiarity information: TONAL LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.ypernyms (tonal language is a kind of...): natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language). Meronyms (parts of tonal language): tonal system; tone system (the system of tones used in a particular language or dialect of a tone language).