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 The ending letter tells both consonant and pitch. The high short tones end with ''h'' ({{w|glottal stop}}), ''p'', ''t'' and ''k'', which are stops sounding similar to how they're used as an initial consonant. The low short tones end with ''q'', ''b'', ''d'', and ''g'', which are the same stops, respectively.
-==== Special vowels ====
+=== Review the finals ===
+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 and ignoring the ''v'', there are only about 32 commonly-used finals. Take a look at the first page of this [[table of all finals in MTL|chart of MTL finals]] and see how many finals you can read.
+=== Special vowels ===
 For certain vowels in certain tones, there are a few substitutions/shortcuts:
 * [[Sioxngtut-ym|shouting-tone]]: ''ae'', ''ie'', ''uo'', ''ea'', ''ao'', when they end the syllable
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 [[File:y yn kym titw zhwn.mp3|thumb|none|y, yn, kym, titw, zhwn]]
 All five shouting substitutions happen only when they end the syllable, so you still have ''{{x|irm}}'', ''{{x|irn}}'', and ''{{x|urn}}'', not ''iem'', etc.
-=== Finals ===
-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 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 ==