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Re: wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs

"Andrew Cunningham" <lang.support@gmail.com> Tue, 26 August 2008 06:37 UTC

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playing devil's advocate:

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?

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


Andrew


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