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Re: wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs

Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> Wed, 24 September 2008 08:55 UTC

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On 26 Aug 2008, at 07:37, Andrew Cunningham wrote:

> 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?

The answer must be yes.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com

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