Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan/Polysyllable homophones: Difference between revisions

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== Method ==
== Method ==
* 14,980 rows of dictionary sections 1 and 5 were identified as polysyllable by TRS: 12,447 duosyllable, 2,105 trisyllable, 426 four-syllable, and just 2 five-syllable. Analysis was done in Python using collections.Counter()
* 14,980 rows of dictionary sections 1 and 5 were identified as polysyllable by TL: 12,447 duosyllable, 2,105 trisyllable, 426 four-syllable, and just 2 five-syllable. Analysis was done in Python using collections.Counter()
* Only some of the duosyllables are written the same in [[TRS]]: 292 words overlap on 145 distinct TRS
* Only some of the duosyllables are written the same in TL: 292 words overlap on 145 distinct TL
* TRS was converted to MTL to reveal the homophones. A total of 14,797 distinct MTL were counted
* TL was converted to MTL to reveal the homophones. A total of 14,797 distinct MTL were counted
* The homophones are 361 words (2.3%) that overlap on 178 MTL (1.2%). Those rows cover 214 TRS.
* The homophones are 361 words (2.3%) that overlap on 178 MTL (1.2%). Those rows cover 214 TL.


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[MTL words with double reverse mapping]]
* [[MTL words with double reverse mapping]]
* [[Frequently-used Taiwanese monosyllables]]
* [[Frequently-used Taiwanese monosyllables]]
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