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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 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 ==== | ||