Chinese Doesn't Have Many Syllables (And Why That's Interesting)
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 Published On Dec 19, 2021

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An exploration of the unusually restrictive syllable structures of Standard Chinese.
Where I put "颜" for "to grind", this should have been "研".

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Artwork and Additional Editing by kvd102

except the table and the night/day thing, I did those, don't you take that away from me, don't let someone else have the credit here!


0:00 Modern Standard Chinese
1:10 Standard Chinese Phonemes
1:55 English Phonotactics
2:50 Standard Chinese Phonotactics
4:05 Standard Chinese Syllables
4:39 Morphemes
5:05 How does Chinese Handle This?

Translations:
vlrfsg - Japanese
deacu daniel - Romanian
Anqi Chen (!00qi) - Standard Mandarin
Leeuwe van den Heuvel - Dutch
James Morris-Wyatt - Spanish
kijetesantakalu palisa - Esperanto (lol)
уля - Ukrainian
Izet - Bosnian
LPG - Taiwanese Mandarin (Traditional Chinese)
emyds - Portuguese (Brazil)
PD6 - Portuguese (Europe)

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