Tone sandhi
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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.