tonal

tonal
    adj 1: employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of
           otherwise similar words; "Chinese is a tonal language"
           [syn: {tonic}, {tonal}]
    2: having tonality; i.e. tones and chords organized in relation
       to one tone such as a keynote or tonic [ant: {atonal},
       {unkeyed}]
    

98 Moby Thesaurus words for "tonal":
      accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental,
      articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad,
      cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, chromatic, close, consonant,
      consonantal, continuant, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, droning,
      enharmonic, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard,
      heavy, high, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral,
      lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, monotone,
      monotonic, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open,
      oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized,
      phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, retroflex,
      rounded, semitonic, semivowel, soft, sonant, soniferous, sonorous,
      sounded, sounding, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic,
      tense, thick, throaty, toneless, tonic, twangy, unaccented,
      unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless,
      vowel, vowellike, weak, wide