Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Gwoyeu Romatzyh ( Chinese 國語 羅馬 字 / 国语 罗马 字 , Pinyin Guóyǔ Luómǎzì - " Romanization of the national language") is a transcription for the Chinese language that was created in 1926 by a group of Chinese linguists under Yuen Ren Chao . Although it was officially recognized by the Chinese government in 1928, it remained limited to a few dictionaries. The name Gwoyeu Romatzyh is its own designation, whereby, deviating from its own rules, "Roma" is written instead of "Luomaa".
The peculiarity of this transcription is that it does not reproduce the four tones of standard Chinese with diacritical marks or digits , but by changing the letters: doubling them, replacing them with another letter or using additional silent letters.
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See also
literature
- Yuen Ren Chao: A Grammar of Spoken Chinese . UCP, Berkeley, Calif. 1968, ISBN 0-520-00219-9 .