Instead of the normal Danish stød, it has tonal accents like Swedish.

The drummer developed a flamboyant style that included throwing the tambourine into the air and catching it, which the audience called Jù-jú, duplicating the Yoruba word for "throw" with tonal accent.

Several scholars have proposed that Proto-Norse also had a separate pitch accent, which was inherited from Proto-Indo-European and has evolved into the tonal accents of modern Swedish and Norwegian, which in turn have evolved into the stød of modern Danish.

One could also think of specific prosodic features, such as tonal accents.

From the 2nd century BC, spelling errors all over the Mediterranean suggest a loss of vowel length distinction, which is commonly thought to result in the loss of tonal accent.

Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is reconstructed to have a pitch accent system that is usually described as a free tonal accent.

This rhythmic principle accords with the linguistic character of the later Greek, which used a stress accent as it had already been developed in Syriac poetry rather than the classical tonal accent.

The stress-based system was introduced because two thirds of Slovenia does not have tonal accent anymore.

It is, however, not clear whether these languages lost the tonal accent or whether the tonal accent was not yet there when these languages started their separate development.

They have unique tonal accents with differences particularly noted amongst Butaritari and Makin inhabitants.