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Now that you've learned all the vowels and the tones, you might be interested in what we call a "final". This is the rear part of the syllable that includes everything except the initial consonant. So, in MTL, the final uniquely spells out the vowel, tone, and any consonant endings.
Now that you've learned all the vowels and the tones, you might be interested in what we call a "final". This is the rear part of the syllable that includes everything except the initial consonant. So, in MTL, the final uniquely spells out the vowel, tone, and any consonant endings.


Counting only the basic and high-short tones, there are about 70 commonly-used finals. A complete table of all the finals in all tones is given [[Table of all finals in MTL|here]].
There are about 70 commonly-used finals if you ignore the different tones. A complete table of all the finals in all tones is given [[Table of all finals in MTL|here]].


==== Tone sandhi ====
==== Tone sandhi ====
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