Editing Gbe languages (section)

===Tone===
The Gbe languages are [[Tone (linguistics)|tonal language]]s. In general, they have three tone levels, High (H), Mid (M), and Low (L), of which the lower two are not phonemically contrastive. Thus, the basic tonemes of Gbe are 'High' and 'Non-High', where the High toneme may be realised as High or Rising and the Non-High toneme may be realised as Low or Mid. The tones of Gbe [[noun]]s are often affected by the [[consonant]] of the noun stem. The [[phonation|voicing]] of this consonant affects the realisation of the Non-High toneme roughly as follows: If the consonant is a voiced [[obstruent]], the Non-High toneme is realised as Low (è-ḏà 'snake') and if the consonant is a voiceless obstruent or a [[sonorant]], the Non-High toneme is realised as Mid (ām̲ē 'person', à-f̱ī 'mouse'). The consonants that induce tonal alternations in this way are sometimes called [[depressor consonant]]s.