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ThoTDB: A Database of the Tonal Languages of the World

Year: 2025

Type: article

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.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14813770

Authors: Maslinsky, Kirill, Vydrin, Valentin

Institutions: Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Langage, langues et cultures d'Afrique

Language: English

Topic: Phonetics and Phonology Research

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: European Commission

Award: G8449161490