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Pe̍h-ūe-jī
Teochew Romanization, also known as Swatow Church Romanization, or locally as ''Pe̍h-ūe-jī'' (), is an orthography similar to ''Pe̍h-ōe-jī'' used to write the Teochew Min, Teochew language (including Swatow dialect). It was introduced by John Campbell Gibson and William Duffus (missionary), William Duffus, two British missionaries, to Swatow in 1875. History Romanization of Teochew can be traced back to the 1840s. The earliest attempt to write the language in the Latin script was undertaken by Baptist missionary William Dean (missionary), William Dean in his 1841 publication ''First Lessons in the Tie-chiw Dialect'' published in Bangkok, Thailand; however, his tonal system was said to be incomplete. The first complete orthographic system was devised by John Campbell Gibson and William Duffus (missionary), William Duffus, two Presbyterianism missionaries, in 1875. The orthography was generally based on the ''Pe̍h-ōe-jī'' system, another work of presbyterian origin devis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Alphabet
The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the Ancient Rome, ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered except several letters splitting—i.e. from , and from —additions such as , and extensions such as letters with diacritics, it forms the Latin script that is used to write most languages of modern Languages of Europe, Europe, languages of Africa, Africa, languages of the Americas, the Americas, and Languages of Oceania, Oceania. Its basic modern inventory is standardized as the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Etymology The term ''Latin alphabet'' may refer to either the alphabet used to write Latin (as described in this article) or other alphabets based on the Latin script, which is the basic set of letters common to the various alphabets descended from the classical Latin alphabet, such as the English alphabet. These Latin-script alphabets may discard letters, like the Rotokas alphabet, or add new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
