[Ietf-languages] Proposal for variant language subtags for Pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization for Minnan (nan)

[Winston Sung <[e-mail]>]

 LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

1. Name of requester: SUNG Chien-chang (Winston Sung / SUNG C. C. /
     Winston Chien-chang SUNG)
2. E-mail address of requester: winston21.sung @ gmail.com
3. Record Requested:

   Type: variant
   Subtag: pehoeji
   Description: Pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization
   Prefix: nan-Latn
   Comments: The subtag represents Pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization for Minnan.

4. Intended meaning of the subtag:

   The variety of Hokkien Minnan language written forms.

5. Reference to published description of the language (book or
   article):

   -- Medhurst, Walter Henry (1832) - Dictionary of the Hok-këèn
      Dialect of the Chinese Language, According to the Reading and
      Colloquial Idioms - Macau: East India Press -
      hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t7pn9319x - OCLC 5314739.

   -- Doty, Elihu (1853) - Anglo Chinese Manual of the Amoy Dialect -
      Guangzhou: Samuel Wells Williams - OCLC 20605114.

   -- MacGowan, John (1869) - A Manual of the Amoy Colloquial - Hong
      Kong: de Souza & Co. - OCLC 23927767.

   -- Douglas, Carstairs (1873) - Chinese–English Dictionary of the
      Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy (1st edition) - London:
      Trübner - hdl:2027/mdp.39015083430507 - OCLC 4820970 - OL
      24969218M.

   -- Van Nest Talmage, John (1894) - New Dictionary in the Amoy
      Dialect - OCLC 41548900.

   -- Warnshuis, A. Livingston; de Pree, H.P. (1911) - Lessons in the
      Amoy Vernacular - Xiamen: Chui-keng-tông Press - OCLC 29903392.

   -- Campbell, William (1913) - A Dictionary of the Amoy Vernacular
      spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-chiu, Chiang-chiu and
      Formosa - Tainan: Taiwan Church Press - OCLC 867068660.

   -- Barclay, Thomas (1923) - Supplement to Dictionary of the
      vernacular or spoken language of Amoy - Shanghai: The
      Commercial press, limited - hdl:2027/mdp.39015051950106.

   -- Tipson, Ernest (1934) - A Pocket Dictionary of the Amoy
      Vernacular: English-Chinese - Singapore: Lithographers - OCLC
      504142973.