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.
0 kommentar(er)
