The Swatow dialect, or in Mandarin the Shantou dialect, is a Chinese dialect mostly spoken in

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. It is a dialect of

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Phonology

Shantou dialect has 18 initials, 61 rimes and 8 tones.

Initials

Rimes

Tones

Tone sandhi

Shantou dialect has extremely extensive

tone sandhi Tone sandhi is a phonological change occurring in tonal languages, in which the tones assigned to individual words or morphemes change based on the pronunciation of adjacent words or morphemes. It usually simplifies a bidirectional tone into a ...

rules: in an utterance, only the last syllable pronounced is not affected by the rules. The two-syllable tonal sandhi rules are shown in the table below:

References

External links

* {{Chinese language Guangdong Southern Min Shantou Teochew dialect