Editing Tone (linguistics) (section)

===North America===
Several North American languages have tone, one of which is [[Cherokee language|Cherokee]], an [[Iroquoian language]]. Oklahoma Cherokee has six tones (1 low, 2 medium, 3 high, 4 very high, 5 rising and 6 falling).<ref name="Cherokee"/> The [[Tanoan languages]] have tone as well. For instance, [[Kiowa language|Kiowa]] has three tones (high, low, falling), while [[Jemez language|Jemez]] has four (high, mid, low, and falling).

In Mesoamericanist linguistics, /1/ stands for high tone and /5/ stands for low tone, except in [[Oto-Manguean]] languages for which /1/ may be low tone and /3/ high tone. It is also common to see acute accents for high tone and grave accents for low tone and combinations of these for contour tones. Several popular orthographies use {{angbr|j}} or {{angbr|h}} after a vowel to indicate low tone. The [[Southern Athabascan languages]] that include the [[Navajo language|Navajo]] and [[Apache languages]] are tonal, and are analyzed as having two tones: high and low. One variety of [[Hopi language|Hopi]] has developed tone, as has the [[Cheyenne language]].