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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. | ||
There are | There are almost 270 commonly-used MTL finals, but if you ignore the different tones, there are just 70. See how much MTL you know using this [[table of all finals in MTL|table of all finals]]. | ||
==== Tone sandhi ==== | ==== Tone sandhi ==== | ||