Published February 5, 2025 | Version v1
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ThoTDB: A Database of the Tonal Languages of the World

  • 1. ROR icon Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
  • 2. ROR icon Langage, langues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire

Description

This is a presentation of a typlological database of tonal languages: ThoTDB, available online at https://thot.huma-num.fr/db/. The database contains the most comprehensive data on which languages in the world are tonal, detailed structured descriptions of tonal systems for a typologically diverse sample of languages, accompanied with short texts with detailed tonal markup that allows to compute tonal density indices.

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Funding

European Commission
THoT - Theory of Tone 101097884