One common measurement for quilting purposes is the Fat Quarter. A fat quarter of fabric is 1/2 the width of the fabric (usually about 22 inches) by a 1/2 yard of length or 18 inches. A piece of cotton measuring 18 x 22 inches is what is generally referred to by the term Fat Quarter. Many quilts typically use 20 of these Fat Quarters in their design of the top or front side.
â¢ TONAL LANGUAGE (noun). The noun TONAL LANGUAGE has 1 sense: 1. a language in which different tones distinguish different meanings. Familiarity information: TONAL LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.ypernyms (tonal language is a kind of...): natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language). Meronyms (parts of tonal language): tonal system; tone system (the system of tones used in a particular language or dialect of a tone language).
A creole language is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages. While the concept is similar to that of a mixed or hybrid language, in the strict sense of the term, a mixed/hybrid language has derived from two or more languages, to such an extent that it is no longer closely related to the source languages.