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A small number of multi-syllable Taiwanese words are homonyms: same sound, different meaning. They are generally two syllables, where the first syllable's citation tone was either tone 1 (high) or tone 5 (curving-up) before [[tone sandhi]]. In MTL they are written the same, but in POJ they are not.
There is a relatively small number of MTL words that can be converted to more than one valid [[POJ]] word. This happens because of loss of tone information when syllables are put together to form a word ([[tone sandhi]]).  


A total of 96 MTL words with this property were found in the [[Maryknoll Taiwanese-English Dictionary]].
A total of 96 MTL words with this property were found in the [[Maryknoll Taiwanese-English Dictionary]]. In general, they are two syllables, where the first syllable's citation tone is either tone 1 (high) or tone 5 (curving-up).  


The following list of 125 MTL words includes data from both Maryknoll and ''[[Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan]]'':
The following list of 125 MTL words includes data from both Maryknoll and [[TSS]]:


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== See also ==
* [[Frequently-Used Taiwanese Monosyllables]]

Revision as of 23:50, 26 August 2018

There is a relatively small number of MTL words that can be converted to more than one valid POJ word. This happens because of loss of tone information when syllables are put together to form a word (tone sandhi).

A total of 96 MTL words with this property were found in the Maryknoll Taiwanese-English Dictionary. In general, they are two syllables, where the first syllable's citation tone is either tone 1 (high) or tone 5 (curving-up).

The following list of 125 MTL words includes data from both Maryknoll and TSS:

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