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Tumbuka has a [[Tone (linguistics)|tonal]] accent but in a very limited way, in that every word, spoken in is ...tent, direct correlation between tone in Tumbuka and [[Focus (linguistics)|focus]].<ref>Downing (2012), p.129.</ref>

Like most other Bantu languages, Chewa is a [[tone (linguistics)|tonal]] language; that is to say, the pitch of the syllables (high or low) ...r's voice tends to rise up; this rise is referred to as a [[boundary tone (linguistics)|boundary tone]].<ref>Kanerva (1990), p.147.</ref> Other intonational tones