Table of all MLT finals: Difference between revisions

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Tables of all Modern Literal Taiwanese finals

These tables show how to spell any MLT final in each tone

Seven Tones of Taiwanese, 32 × 7 grid for spelling out all tones
Examples, using words and syllables from Practical Taiwanese Conversation (Level 1)
Finals of Taiwanese in MTL, 46 × 7 grid, including om, oang and v-nasalized vowels

counted over 2,166 distinct syllables in Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan
after dropping tone markings, found 80 distinct finals: 44 long, 36 short.
- ten most frequent: i, e, a, ing, u, oo, au, ue, o, ai
- nine least frequent: om, aunnh, aih, iuh, ennh, mh, uang, onnh, iaunn, op. These can be found in the MTL words: om, hvauqhvauh, haiq, tiuq, khveh, hmqhmh, oafng, `hvoq, viaw, lob

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 '''Tables of all [[Modern Literal Taiwanese]] finals'''
-* '''syllable''' = '''initial''' + '''final''' + '''tone'''
+* '''MLT final''' = '''vowel''' + '''tone''' + optional '''final consonant'''
-* '''final''' = '''vowel''' + optional '''final consonant'''
+* '''syllable''' = '''initial''' + '''MLT final'''
-* '''MLT final''' = '''final''' + '''tone'''
 These tables show how to spell any '''MLT final''' in each [[Tones of Taiwanese|tone]]