Vocaloid phonetic list8/7/2023 there are only these 423 combinations of the possible 21 x 35. Not all initials can combine with every final, in fact. In my book there was a double page table listing ALL possible combinations between "initials" and "Finals". That's less total phonemes than English's 44 phonemes.Ĭlick to expand.Absolutely! When I studied Mandarin once I took the time to count EVERY possible valid syllable. There's a /y/ in Mandarin Chinese that's missing from the list, so the total phoneme count is 29 phonemes, which is less than English:Ģ2 Consonants: (b) (c) (d) (f) (g) (h) (j) (k) (l) (m) (n) (ng) (p) (q) (r) (s) (t) (x) (z) (zh) (ch) (sh) The /n/ is already accounted for in the initial consonants, whereas the /ng/ appears here because it doesn't appear in any initial consonants. There are only eight unique phonemes in the list - 6 vowels and 2 consonants: Similarly, (iou) is a sequence of three phonemes, /i o u/. In the second list, (eng) isn't a single phoneme, it's a sequence of two phonemes, /e ng/. Like Japanese, because of strict ordering rules, it's much easier to record a complete list of Chinese (and Japanese) phoneme combinations. Click to expand.Chinese has significantly less phonemes than English.
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