Latinxua Sin Wenz
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Latinxua Sin Wenz is a historical series of romanizations for Chinese. Beifangxua Latinxua Sin Wenz, for Mandarin Chinese, was the original iteration, and regional Sin Wenz associations developed vari
An issue of Dazhung Bao (大衆報; Dàzhòng Bào), a Mandarin–Shanghainese newspaper published in Latinxua in 1938. The subtitle of Dhazung Bao is in a Shanghainese adaptation of Sin Wenz, where dh represents the voiced alveolar plosive /d/, and the zh initial does not exist. Sheqben is the Shanghainese romanization of 日本 "Japan", where sh represents the voiced alveolar fricative /z/, and q represents the glottal stop /ʔ/. The pronunciation Lusin instead of *
Giefang Rhbao — Jiefang Daily (pinyin: Jiěfàng Rìbào).
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
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Gwoyeu Romatzyh is a system for writing Standard Chinese using the Latin alphabet. It was primarily conceived by Yuen Ren Chao, who led a group of linguists on the National Languages Committee in refi
Latinxua Sin Wenz
…the Chinese characters. They decided to use the Latin alphabet because they thought that it would serve their purpose better than Cyrillic. Unlike Gwoyeu Romatzyh, with its complex method of indicating tones, Latinxua Sin Wenz system does not indicate tones at all. The eminent Moscow-based Chinese scholar Qu…
Lin Yutang, who first proposed tonal spelling, in 1939
Gwoyeu Romatzyh on a park sign in Taipei – Taytzyy (太子; Tàizǐ)
Yuen Ren Chao as a young man, c. 1916