English
Noun
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(in Mandarin) 你好吗？ 我很好。
Nominal (dictionary) tones: Nǐ hǎo ma? Wǒ hěn hǎo.
Actual tones: Ní hǎo ma? Wǒ hén hǎo. (third tone in front of another tone becomes second tone)
Translation: How are you? I'm fine.
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tone sandhi (uncountable)
- (linguistics) change of tone in tonal languages when some tones come together
Translations
change of tone
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 變調, 变调 (bin3 diu6)
- Mandarin: 變調 (zh), 变调 (zh) (biàndiào)
- Finnish: toonisandhi
- French: sandhi tonal (fr) m
- German: Tonsandhi n
- Japanese: 声調変化 (せいちょうへんか, seichō henka), 変調 (へんちょう, henchō)
- Korean: 변조 (ko) (byeonjo) (變調 (ko))
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- Lao:
- Punjabi:
- Russian: то́новое са́ндхи n (tónovoje sándxi), измене́ние то́на n (izmenénije tóna)
- Thai: เสียงสนธิ (sĭang sŏntí)
- Vietnamese: biến điệu (變調), biến thanh (變聲)
- Yoruba:
- Zhuang:
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See also
tone sandhi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia