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Re: wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs

John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Tue, 26 August 2008 06:40 UTC

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Andrew Cunningham scripsit:

> If zh-pinyin is Mandarin in Hanyu Pinyin, can the pinyin variant be used
> with other languages, since Mongol, Uyghur, and Tibetan, etc can be
> officially transcribed in Pinyin in PRC?

Hmm.  Do you have a pointer to how this is done?  

> And at the moment I'll refrain from discussing other romanisation schemes
> such as Tongyong Pinyin and Guangdong romanization?

Good.  If someone wants them, they can apply for them.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
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they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --The Hobbit

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