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== Analysis == | == Analysis == | ||
We isolated 2,936 rows from the dictionary that are monosyllables and converted their romanization to MTL. We only considered words from the first section of the dictionary because they appear to be frequently used, and ignored the second section. We folded in [[ | We isolated 2,936 rows from the dictionary that are monosyllables and converted their romanization to MTL. We only considered words from the first section of the dictionary because they appear to be frequently used, and ignored the second section. We folded in [[Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan/Words beginning with double hyphen|the backquoted words]], for example ''{{x|`lie}}'' was counted as ''{{x|lix}}''. Then we used Python's collections.Counter to count the frequency of each sound. This yielded 1,800 distinct sounds. | ||
We went further and used Counter again on those results to find out how common homophones are among the monosyllables, and discovered that 63% of rows are homophonic. Those 1853 rows are distributed as follows: | We went further and used Counter again on those results to find out how common homophones are among the monosyllables, and discovered that 63% of rows are homophonic. Those 1853 rows are distributed as follows: | ||
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== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[ | * [[Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan/Frequency of syllables|Frequency of syllables]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan/Words beginning with double hyphen|Words beginning with double hyphen]] | ||
* [[Frequently-used Taiwanese polysyllable homophones]] | * [[Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan/Polysyllable homophones|Frequently-used Taiwanese polysyllable homophones]] | ||