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'''Tone sandhi''' ([[Zoafntiau]]) in Taiwanese is the process of altering the tone of a syllable depending on the surrounding words and grammatical function. Most nouns in Taiwanese do no change tone. However, almost all verbs and adjectives do change tone when not at the end of a phrase.

'''Tone sandhi''' ([[Zoafntiau]]) in Taiwanese is the process of altering the [[Tones of Taiwanese|tone]] of a syllable depending on the surrounding words and grammatical function. Most nouns in Taiwanese do not change tone. However, almost all verbs and adjectives do change tone when not at the end of a phrase.

==Basic Rules==

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	'''Tone sandhi''' ([[Zoafntiau]]) in Taiwanese is the process of altering the tone of a syllable depending on the surrounding words and grammatical function. Most nouns in Taiwanese do no change tone. However, almost all verbs and adjectives do change tone when not at the end of a phrase.		'''Tone sandhi''' ([[Zoafntiau]]) in Taiwanese is the process of altering the [[Tones of Taiwanese\|tone]] of a syllable depending on the surrounding words and grammatical function. Most nouns in Taiwanese do not change tone. However, almost all verbs and adjectives do change tone when not at the end of a phrase.

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Tone sandhi: Difference between revisions

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