tonoexodus

English

Etymology

From tono- +‎ Exodus, by analogy with tonogenesis, reinterpreting the suffix -genesis as the book of the Bible, Genesis, which is directly followed by Exodus.

Noun

tonoexodus (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) A process in which a language loses tones.
    Antonym: tonogenesis
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