👉 Polytonality is a phenomenon in which two or more languages can have identical phonetic sounds, but with different meanings. This can occur when two languages share a common root and a common base sound that is not present in both languages, but is present in one language. For example, the English words "apple" and "orange" are polytonal because they both have the same vowel sound at the end of each word, but with different meanings. Polytonality can be observed in many