interpretation of what tone is. For instance, the Burmese language has phonetic tone, but each of its three tones is accompanied by a distinctive phonation (creaky, murmured or plain vowels). It could be argued either that the tone is incidental to the phonation, in which case Burmese would not be phonemically tonal, or that the phonation is incidental to the tone, in which case it would be considered tonal. Something similar appears to be the case with Ket. The 19th-century constructed language Solresol can consist of only tone, but unlike all natural tonal languages, Solresol's tone is absolute, rather than relative, and no tone sandhi occurs. See also Meeussen's rule Tone letter Tone name Tone number Tone pattern Musical language Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den Notes References Bibliography HAL 01678018. Reprinted (with additions). Translation of . (Reprinted 1972, ). (pbk). External links World map of tone languages The World Atlas of Language Structures Online Linguistics terminology