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Mandarin: 你好吗？我很好。
Nominal (dictionary) tones: Nǐ hǎo ma? Wǒ hěn hǎo.
Actual tones: Ní hǎo ma? Wǒ hén hǎo.
The third tone (ǎ) becomes the second tone (á) when another third-tone syllable follows.
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Etymology
From tone + sandhi.
Noun
tone sandhi (uncountable)
- (phonology) The change of tone that occurs in some tonal languages when certain tones are pronounced successively.
- The most frequent occurrence of tone sandhi in Mandarin Chinese occurs in the third tone.
Translations
change of tone
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 變調 / 变调 (bin3 diu6)
- Mandarin: 變調 / 变调 (zh) (biàndiào)
- Dutch: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: toonisandhi
- French: sandhi tonal (fr) m
- German: Tonsandhi n
- Hungarian: tónusszandhi
- Japanese: 声調変化 (せいちょうへんか, seichō henka), 変調 (ja) (へんちょう, henchō)
- Korean: 변조(變調) (ko) (byeonjo)
- Punjabi: سُر سندھی f (sur saṅdhī)
- Russian: то́новое са́ндхи n (tónovoje sándxi), измене́ние то́на n (izmenénije tóna)
- Spanish: sandhi tonal
- Swedish: tonsandhi c
- Thai: เสียงสนธิ (sĭang sŏntí)
- Vietnamese: biến thanh (變聲)
- Yorùbá: please add this translation if you can
- Zhuang: bendiu, bienqdiuh
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