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

• 17,916 rows from Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan were analyzed
• 2,080 distinct syllables were counted
• 266 distinct finals were found
  • Ten most frequent: ar, ie, eeng, ii, ofng, i, efng, ix, o, and af tied with aau. Ar was found 997 times, af and aau 395 times.
  • Nine least frequent: oafng, ob, om, oom, vaai, vau, viao, voq, vuix. They belong to words: oafng, lob, om, toom, pefngpeqkvaai, liengvau, gviao, `hvoq, khvuieoah.

See also

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