tone sandhi

English[edit]

Examples
Mandarin: 你好吗？我很好。 Nominal (dictionary) tones: Nǐ hǎo ma? Wǒ hěn hǎo. Actual tones: Ní hǎo ma? Wǒ hén hǎo. The third tone (ǎ) becomes the second tone (á) when another third-tone syllable follows.

tone sandhi (uncountable)

(phonology) The change of tone that occurs in some tonal languages when certain tones are pronounced successively.

change of tone

Chinese:
Cantonese: 變調／变调 (bin³ diu⁶)

Mandarin: 變調／变调 (zh) (biàndiào)
Dutch: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: toonisandhi
French: sandhi tonal (fr) m
German: Tonsandhi n
Japanese: 声調変化 (せいちょうへんか, seichō henka), 変調 (ja) (へんちょう, henchō)
Korean: 변조(變調) (ko) (byeonjo)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Punjabi: سُر سندھی‎ f (sur saṅdhī)
Russian: то́новое са́ндхи n (tónovoje sándxi), измене́ние то́на n (izmenénije tóna)
Spanish: sandhi tonal
Thai: เสียงสนธิ (sĭang sŏntí)
Vietnamese: biến điệu (vi) (變調), biến thanh (變聲)
Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
Zhuang: bendiu, bienqdiuh