Tones can interact in complex ways through a process known as tone sandhi.

A word may switch from one of these tones to the other due to tone sandhi.

Many languages spoken in China have tone sandhi, some of it quite complex.

Below are some examples of geminates to arise from sandhi.

Most importantly, there is very common external sandhi, and some assimilatory sound changes.

Pronunciation also varies with context according to the rules of tone sandhi.

Sandhi: conditioned changes that take place at word-boundaries but not elsewhere.

Generally, syllables follow after the dash which must undergo tone sandhi.

All words are written in their original tones instead of tones with tone sandhi.

It is the language the Pollard script was designed for, and displays extensive tone sandhi.

It has six tones (reduced to two in stopped syllables) and extensive tone sandhi.

Several rules for internal sandhi in morpheme combinations can be reconstructed.

"No." Moon dropped her eyes again, spoke awkwardly in Sandhi.

They'd been there all along, of course," a voice says ironically; speaking in Sandhi, the language of my home.

A related phenomenon is the final consonant sandhi.

Disembodied voices made announcements in Sandhi, and half a dozen other languages she didn't recognize at all.

There are two main rules for Zapotec tone sandhi, which apply in this order:

This means that when reading aloud the reader must adjust the tone markings on the page to account for sandhi.

Gundhalinu swore in Sandhi, breaking his own silence in self defense.

Some examples of word-initial sandhi are listed below.

The seven or eight tones of Hmong demonstrate several instances of tone sandhi.

The words were in Sandhi.

Rajkot was named in honour of its co-founder, Raju Sandhi.

Most tonal languages have tone sandhi, in which the tones of words alter according to pre-determined rules.

This is a kind of external sandhi in which words join, undergoing phonological processes such as elision.