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What happens when you put a vowel and tone together? You get a "final", the rear part of the syllable, everything but the initial consonant. It uniquely spells out the vowel, tone, and any consonant endings.
What happens when you put a vowel and tone together? You get a "final", the rear part of the syllable, everything but the initial consonant. It uniquely spells out the vowel, tone, and any consonant endings.


Folding in the tones, there are just 70 commonly-used finals. Counting all the tones, the number expands to almost 270. See how many finals you can read from this [[table of all finals in MTL|chart of MTL finals]].
Folding in the tones, there are about 70 commonly-used finals. Counting all the tones, the number expands to about 270. See how many finals you can read from this [[table of all finals in MTL|chart of MTL finals]].


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