ThoTDB: A Database of the Tonal Languages of the World

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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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2025-02-05
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14813770
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Phonetics and Phonology Research
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ThoTDB: A Database of the Tonal Languages of the World

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Abstract

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.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (FR), Langage, langues et cultures d'Afrique (FR)
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