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Tonology vs Onology - What's the difference?

tonology | onology |

As nouns the difference between tonology and onology

is that tonology is (linguistics|uncountable) the study of tone in human languages while onology is foolish discourse.

tonology

English

Noun

  • (linguistics, uncountable) The study of tone in human languages.
  • (linguistics, countable) The system of rules governing tones in a particular language.

    • See also

    * (l)

    onology

    English

    Noun

  • foolish discourse
    • (Webster 1913)