Monosyllabic language

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A monosyllabic language is a language in which words predominantly consist of a single syllable. In a monosyllabic language, it is rarely the case that all words are monosyllabic; it is normally just the case that most words are. Monosyllabic languages are often tonal languages; due to the use of tones, the number of available monosyllables is significantly more than in non-tonal languages, making shorter words more practical. The Chinese language, however, is not monosyllabic; see Chinese language#Morphology for discussion.