Table of all MLT finals
A list of all finals in Taiwanese is presented in the following files using the MTL writing system. There are 65 unique finals (~400 if including tone) in total. Those that are uncommon are grayed out.
Method
- 266 unique finals were found in the main entries of Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan. First, a total of 35,859 TRS pre-sandhi syllables were collected from 20,123 rows of the dictionary and reduced to 2,080 unique syllables. Then, each syllable was broken into initial and final parts, and the finals were counted.
- The top ten most frequent finals (across the headwords) are: ar, ie, eeng, ii, ofng, i, efng, ix, o, af. Ar was found 997 times, af 395 times.
- The ten least frequent, found only once or twice, are: vaau, vau, voq, vuix, ob, viao, om, oom, oaxng, oafng.
- File:Finals in Kaohsiung-area Taiwanese (MoeDict).ods