tone sandhi

English

Examples
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.

Etymology

From tone +‎ sandhi.

Noun

tone sandhi (uncountable)

1. (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 điệu (vi) (變調), biến thanh (變聲)
• Yorùbá: please add this translation if you can
• Zhuang: bendiu, bienqdiuh