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.

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.

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

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