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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 | 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 == | ||