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Final (linguistics)



         


The final, also called the rhyme, or in Chinese yunmu (PY: yùnmǔ, TC: 韻母, SC: 韵母), is an important concept in the phonological study of Chinese languages. It is also used in the study of some other Asian languages of these families: Hmong-Mien, Mon-Khmer, Tai-Kadai, Tibeto-Burman, etc.

The final is the second part of a syllable. The first part is called the inital. Tonal languages has the rhyme", in traditional phonological studies since the Jìn Dynasty.






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