Chinese is a tone language.

汉语是一种声调语言。

Chinese is a kind of tone language.

汉语是一种声调语言。

The Chinese belongs to the tone language, while English belongs to the innovation language, that is, intonation does not belong to single word but words.

汉语属于声调语言，而英语属于语调语言，即语调不属于单个词而属于话语。

The meaning – distinctive function of the tone is especially important in tone languages. English is not a tone language, but an intonation language.

语调在任何语言里有发挥着传导意义的作用，尤其是在象英语这样的语言里。

The number of tones vary from one tone language to another.

铃声的数量各有不同，语调语言到另一个。