Table of all MLT finals: Difference between revisions

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Tables of all the finals in Modern Literal Taiwanese (MLT, MTL)

vowel + optional final consonant + tone = vowel-final, or final, for short
tables show the spelling for each 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
found 80 distinct finals: 44 long, 36 short. In TRS:
- 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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 == Background ==
-* 17,916 rows from ''[[Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan]]'' were analyzed
+* counted over 2,166 distinct [[syllable]]s in ''[[Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan]]''
-* 2,080 distinct [[syllable]]s were counted
+* found 80 distinct finals: 44 long, 36 short. In TRS:
-* 266 distinct finals were found
+** ten most frequent: '''i''', '''e''', '''a''', '''ing''', '''u''', '''oo''', '''au''', '''ue''', '''o''', '''ai'''
-** Ten most frequent: {{x|ar}}, {{x|ie}}, {{x|eeng}}, {{x|ii}}, {{x|ofng}}, {{x|i}}, {{x|efng}}, {{x|ix}}, {{x|o}}, and {{x|af}} tied with {{x|aau}}. ''Ar'' was found 997 times, ''af'' and ''aau'' 395 times.
+** nine least frequent: '''om''', '''aunnh''', '''aih''', '''iuh''', '''ennh''', '''mh''', '''uang''', '''onnh''', '''iaunn''', '''op'''. These can be found in the MTL words: {{x|om}}, {{x|hvauqhvauh}}, {{x|haiq}}, {{x|tiuq}}, {{x|khveh}}, {{x|hmqhmh}}, {{x|oafng}}, {{x|`hvoq}}, {{x|viaw}}, {{x|lob}}
-** Nine least frequent: {{x|oafng}}, {{x|ob}}, {{x|om}}, {{x|oom}}, {{x|vaai}}, {{x|vau}}, {{x|viao}}, {{x|voq}}, {{x|vuix}}. They belong to words: ''{{x|oafng}}'', ''{{x|lob}}'', ''{{x|om}}'', ''{{x|toom}}'', ''{{x|pefngpeqkvaai}}'', ''{{x|liengvau}}'', ''{{x|gviao}}'', ''{{x|`hvoq}}'', ''{{x|khvuieoah}}''.
 == See also ==