{"id":3775,"date":"2010-09-23T17:50:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T09:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2018-08-28T12:30:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T04:30:49","slug":"xin-tang-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2010\/xin-tang-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Xin Tang 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/xin_tang\/xin_tang_04.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/xin_tang\/xin_tang4_cover.gif\" alt=\"cover of issue number 4 of the journal 'Xin Tang (New China)'\" style=\"float: right; height: 190px;\"\/><\/a>The fourth issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/xin_tang\/\"><em>Xin Tang<\/em><\/a> is now online. <\/p>\n<p>For those of you wondering why <em>Xin Tang<\/em> is spelled <em>Xin Talng<\/em> on the cover, that&#8217;s because parts of this particular issue use a tonal-spelling variation of Hanyu Pinyin, as follows.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n<strong>Simple rules for tonal spelling<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>ma (&#23229;) \/ ling (&#25294;)<\/li>\n<li>mal (&#40635;) \/ lilng (&#38646;)<\/li>\n<li>maa (&#39340;) \/ liing (&#38936;)<\/li>\n<li>mah (&#32629;) \/ lihng (&#21478;)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;&#8216;&#8221; biaaoshih qingsheng, kee&#8217;shi &#8220;&#8216;de&#8221; dou &#8211;&gt; &#8220;d&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here, for example, is a message from the publisher. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"py\">\n<p>Colng zheih yihqi qii SHIN TARNG gaai weil XIN TALNG, shiiyohng d welnzih yii Pin Yin (jiaan xiee PY) weil jichuu. Duobahn d welnzhang yohng yooudiaoh PY xiee. Biaodiaoh faa qiing kahn fengmiahn erh xiah&#8217;tou d jiaandan shuomilng.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The same passage in Pinyin with tone marks:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"py\">\n<p>C&#243;ng zh&#232;i y&#236; q&#299; q&#464; SHIN TARNG g&#462;i w&#233;i XIN TANG, sh&#464;y&#242;ng d w&#233;nz&#236; y&#464; P&#299;n Y&#299;n (ji&#462;n xi&#283; PY) w&#233;i j&#299;ch&#468;. Du&#333;b&#224;n d w&#233;nzh&#257;ng y&#242;ng y&#466;udi&#224;o PY xi&#283;. Bi&#257;odi&#224;o f&#462; q&#464;ng k&#224;n f&#275;ngmi&#224;n &#232;r xi&#224;&#8217;tou d ji&#462;nd&#257;n shu&#333;m&#237;ng. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not all of the romanization in this issue follows that form. Some has no special spellings but instead uses tone marks. Some has no tone marks. Give &#8216;em all a try and see what you think. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/xin_tang\/xin_tang_04.pdf\">Xin Tang 4<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth issue of Xin Tang is now online. For those of you wondering why Xin Tang is spelled Xin Talng on the cover, that&#8217;s because parts of this particular issue use a tonal-spelling variation of Hanyu Pinyin, as follows. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2010\/xin-tang-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,12,41,106,28,95,55,32,20,19,127,105,31],"tags":[700,699],"class_list":["post-3775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet","category-chinese","category-english","category-hanyu","category-languages","category-linguistics","category-literacy","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-romanization","category-tonal-languages","category-tone-marks","category-writing-systems","tag-tonal-spelling","tag-xin-tang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7879,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions\/7879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}