Table of all MLT finals

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

Versions

• 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

Background

• 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

See also

• List of all initial consonants in MTL
• Tones of Taiwanese
• Frequently-used Taiwanese monosyllables