Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan/Monosyllables

Frequently-Used Taiwanese Monosyllables were collected from the Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan (MoeDict).

Method

• Python's collections.Counter was used to count the frequency of the monosyllables taken from the first section of the dictionary:
  • 2,936 monosyllable rows used only 1,813 unique MTL monosyllables
  • most (62%) rows "collide with" (sound the same as) up to 6 other rows
  • 30% collide with only one other row
  • 32% collide with 3 to 6 other rows
  • the most collisions (<1%) occur for: lie, ky, køf
  • 38% don't collide at all