1 | Xinfeng dialect's Ru tone does not change, though in Sidu dialect despite the tone sandhi , it only has one Ru tone. | |
2 | The evolution of tone IV in other dialects can also be explained in the same way. | |
3 | Regarding the Mandarin falling tone's vanishing to this day, people have been prone to description through the categories and the evolution rules. | |
4 | As the Chinese phonetics went into Japanese, the sound of glottal stop emerged. | |
5 | 两千多年来,广州方言一直在相当固定的地域、相对稳定的居民和相对封闭的环境中使用,这就是广州方言较完整保留入声的主要原因。 It is two thousand years since Cantonese have been used by residents in relatively fixed area and closed environment, which is the main reason why entering tone is retained fully in Cantonese. |