Tuesday, February 17, 2009

My plan for this and next week. Final tones

Finals

In modern Chinese, there are 38 finals besides the above-represented 21 initials.


iuü
aiaua
o
uoüe
eie

er


ai
uai
ei
uei (ui)
aoiao

ouiou (iu)

anianuanüan
eninuen (un)üen
angianguang
engiengueng
ongiong

  • ie like "ye" in "yes"
  • e like "e" in "her"
  • er like "er" in "sister" (american pronounciation)
  • ai like "y" in "by" (light)
  • ei like "ay" in "bay"
  • ou like "o" in "go"
  • an like "an" in "can" (without stressing the "n")
  • -ng (final) a nasalized soung like the "ng" in "bang" without pronouncing the "g"
  • uei, uen and iou when preceded by an initial, are written as ui, un and iu respectivly.

Here are the final tones as well, these combined with initial tones allow for the creation of simple words and phrases.

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