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Chinese Doesn't Have Many Syllables (And Why That's Interesting)

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K Klein

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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".

Written and Created by Me.
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 MorrisWyatt Spanish
kijetesantakalu palisa Esperanto (lol)
уля Ukrainian
Izet Bosnian
LPG Taiwanese Mandarin (Traditional Chinese)
emyds Portuguese (Brazil)
PD6 Portuguese (Europe)

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