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  Tonal may refer to:

  • Tonal (mythology)
    Tonal (Mythology)

    Tonal is a concept within the study of Mesoamerican religion, myth, folklore and anthropology. It refers to the belief found in many indigenous Mesoamerican cultures that a person upon being born requires a close spiritual link to an animal, a link that lasts throughout the lives of both creatures....
    , a concept appearing in the belief systems and traditions of Mesoamerican cultures, involving a spiritual link between a person and an animal
  • tonal language
    Tonal language

    A tonal language is a language that uses tone to distinguish words. Tone is a Phonology common to many languages around the world . Various Chinese language languages such as Mandarin, Min Nan/Taiwanese Minnan and Cantonese are perhaps the most well-known of such languages....
    , a classification of languages where some combination of high-low pitch has a phonemic distinction
  • tonality
    Tonality

    Tonality is a system of music in which specific hierarchy pitch relationships are based on a Key "center" or Tonic . The term tonalit? originated with Alexandre-?tienne Choron and was borrowed by Fran?ois-Joseph F?tis in 1840 ....
    , a system of writing music involving the relationship of pitch to some centered key