Where could I find a comparation of the different romanization system used for Cantonese? I am especially interested in a cross-reference table beween Yale and...
Marco Cimarosti
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May 10, 2002 10:50 am
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... I have a chart I made months ago of a number of systems, but it didn't include Jyutping (U+7CB5 U+62FC). However, Yale and Jyutping are pretty similar: ...
Thomas Chan
tc31@...
May 10, 2002 2:08 pm
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... Thank you, this helped a lot. ... I don't know myseklf what to ask for... I was trying to understand the kCantonese field in the Unicode's UniHan database,...
Marco Cimarosti
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May 13, 2002 12:00 pm
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... No, it's written in a slightly modified Yale. The only differences between what we use and standard Yale are: 1) We do not differentiate between the high...
... I said so because of the tones indicated with digits, which I just discovered being the Yale's way. ... Thanks. Is a placename such as "Kowloon" spelled in...
Marco Cimarosti
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May 13, 2002 4:58 pm
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... No. The oldest English place-names in Hong Kong are spelled with whatever romanization system happened to seem appropriate to the British at the time....
... Maybe these names are from the Postal Code system, like Soochow and Hangchow? I've never found a coherent explanation of this system, and perhaps there...
... I think it would still be possible, as there are places (through in the minority) within the Pearl River Delta which pronounce the first syllable with the...
Thomas Chan
tc31@...
May 16, 2002 8:15 pm
765
Is Canadian Syllabics correctly viewable as an abugida, using orientation rather than diacritics as the vowel signs? -- John Cowan <jcowan@...>...
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green alice
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Jun 3, 2002 6:51 am
768
The Chinese People's Daily (April 18) reports that the government is making moves to protect Nushu, including the establishment of a museum. See: ...
* John Hudson ... That is very good news. It's somewhat annoying that the people writing the story haven't figured out that it is a script, not a language,...
... This seems to be a common error in almost every news item I've seen about Nushu. This, rather better article, identifies Nushu as a 'special written ...
* Lars Marius Garshol ... * John Hudson ... That could indicate that the problem might be with a single source for all these news stories. On the other hand,...
... I think they are simply poor word choices on the part of an author or translator not working in their native language. Take for instance the chinavoc.com...
Thomas Chan
tc31@...
Jun 5, 2002 7:42 pm
773
Professional Association of Localization (PAL) Web Site URL Changed June 19, 2002--The Professional Association of Localization (PAL) announced that the URL...
hello everybody about me: as y'all can see, i have found this list. my interest in writing systems is of a double nature: i'm as interested in the phonology as...
... Hello. ... So, I'm not the only one who wastes his time with this kind of games. :-) ... Before you explain the system, could you just reveal the first few...
Marco Cimarosti
marco.cimarosti@...
Jun 20, 2002 5:06 pm
776
hi Marco Cimarosti wrote: [snip] ... this kind of games. :-) *And consequently me neither. Always good to know that. What languages are you adapting to? Me:...
... For a technical introduction, I transcribed phonetically a Latin word in most of the scripts used in the world. And I often write my pre-scholar baby's...
Marco Cimarosti
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Jun 21, 2002 4:28 pm
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Hi all, A question about logographs and ideographs came up on another list, and I would like to ask your opinion. The "+" sign in the English language, is it a...
A.K. Eyma
ayma@...
Jun 22, 2002 3:29 pm
779
... Irrelevancies. ... No. "1 + 1 = 2" can be pronounced "One and one is two." ... No. -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@......
... OK, I give up. I have divided the picture in little squares (correct?) and, perhaps, I have detected a punctuation sign (a dot in the middle of an empty...
Marco Cimarosti
marco.cimarosti@...
Jun 25, 2002 10:28 am
782
... "Meaning"? "Sign"? "Signifier"? -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@......
... "Featural"? But, warning, all attempts to define this term have failed, so far. _ Marco...
Marco Cimarosti
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Jun 25, 2002 11:11 am
784
... correct ... right ... there is none ... Sorry, I shouldn't have written "consonant and vowel upon each other", but rather "into each other". Syllable-onset...
... You cheater! :-) ... You double cheater! :-) ... I though something like that, but then I got confused. One of my assumptions was that syllable-final "-r"...
Marco Cimarosti
marco.cimarosti@...
Jun 26, 2002 11:38 am
786
Marco Cimarosti wrote: [snip] ... the lonely one used for punctuation) could be a sort of "virama", but I also assumed that it was an accent. * There’s no...
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