The sound can be described as a sort of endless toneless droning. The toneless syllables between are lower in pitch than the high tones. Jin is a toneless pinyin romanization of various Chinese names and words. Likewise, Chinese reporters abroad may file their stories in toneless pinyin. To mark the toneless Mandarin syllable "ma", a centered dot is used&colon; . These tones added to toneless words are called 'phrasal tones'. The intransitive prefix is marked only by a toneless nasal. The call is described as a quick and toneless "zzt". Indospheric languages are often toneless and/or highly suffixal. Phonologically, Phuthi is argued to display a three-way High/Low/toneless distinction. But there is no plateau if the time adverb is toneless. It is toneless, unless the verb-stem itself has a tone. The plot makes almost no sense, and Eastwood directs in his usual toneless fashion. This is only found if the first word is toneless. Morphemes can be underlyingly high (H), low (L), or toneless.