Excerpt from A Dictionary of the Hok-Këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language, According to the Reading and Colloquial Idioms: Containing About 12, 000 Characters, the Sounds and Tones of Which Are Accurately Marked, and Various Examples of Their Use, Taken Generally From Approved Chinese Authors
In addition to the sounds formed by the junction of the fifteen initials and 'fifty finals, the inhabitants of Hok ke'en have a method of multiplying their few monosyllables, by the application of various tones, which, while the word retains the same form of spelling, produce an alteration of the intonation, by a variation of the accent. Respeclg-f ing these tones of the Chinese language, some difference of opinion has. Obtained, and.
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