Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan/Frequency of syllables: Difference between revisions

'''Frequency of syllables in the ''Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan'''''

== First 100 syllables ==

The 100 most frequent syllables are given below, converted from [[TRS]] to [[MTL]]. The top ten are: ''[[ar]]'' (867), ''[[thaau]]'' (291), ''kofng'' (170), ''[[chiuo]]'' (163), ''[[zuie]]'' (161), ''[[hofng]]'' (156), ''[[laang]]'' (152), ''[[sym]]'' (147), ''[[khaf]]'' (140), ''seg'' (133).

#{{xl|ar}}

#{{xl|thaau}}

#{{xl|kofng}}

#{{xl|chiuo}}

#{{xl|zuie}}

#{{xl|hofng}}

#{{xl|laang}}

#{{xl|sym}}

#{{xl|khaf}}

#{{xl|seg}}

* Complete list: [[File:Syllables in Kaohsiung-area Taiwanese (MoeDict).ods]]

== Method ==

A frequency analysis was performed on the headwords of the ''[[Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan]]'' (as found in ''[[MoeDict]]''), yielding 2,128 unique [[Imcied|syllables]]. Only main headwords were analyzed (proverbs and variant readings, preceded by the forward slash, were excluded). The syllables and their frequency are sorted by frequency (across the headwords), then alphabetically, written in the original TRS, along with conversions to [[POJ]], and MTL.

* [[List of all initial consonants in Taiwanese Hokkien|List of all initial consonants]]

* [[List of all finals in Taiwanese Hokkien|List of all finals]]