Chinese, Reading Chinese Ethnic Groups' names

8 months ago
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For the list that I used, it can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_China .

This time, I start off with a quick summary of producing tones and hopefully a decent guide to what you are looking for so as to pick out (or produce) the four major tones (they are not always as listed when combining hanzi. Ni hao is technically a particular way but tones affect subsequent tones when in combination as a word or phrase though not always when used next to each other. There are rules...).

High, Rising, Dipping, Falling. That is Mandarin tones whereas other dialects of Chinese, still for the same characters but different phonemes attached to the morphemes, can have their own tonal rules and even new tones or modifications to the four found in the Mandarin (foreigner, given the Mandarins were never Han and came from the Northeast of China past the Koreas) dialect.

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