{"id":390,"date":"2006-04-20T14:08:59","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T06:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/early-universal-romanization-system\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T15:16:12","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T07:16:12","slug":"early-universal-romanization-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/early-universal-romanization-system\/","title":{"rendered":"early &#8216;universal&#8217; romanization system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No-Sword brings up <a href=\"http:\/\/no-sword.jp\/blog\/2006\/04\/alternate-history-for-phonetics-nerds.html\">Karl Richard Lepsius&#8217;s early, IPA-like system<\/a>, with Matt linking to Google Print&#8217;s online edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?ie=UTF-8&#038;vid=OCLC01912359&#038;id=st1gOq0KgM0C&#038;pg=PR15&#038;printsec=4&#038;lpg=PR15\"><em>Standard Alphabet for Reducing Unwritten Languages and Foreign Graphic Systems to a Uniform Orthography in European Letters<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The book groups Taiwanese, Hakka, and Mandarin &#8212; or Hok-lo, Hak-ka, and Mandarinic (my favorite), as it refers to them &#8212; under &#8220;monosyllabic languages&#8221; (grr). OTOH, Tibetan is given as an &#8220;isolated language.&#8221; Interestingly, Mandarin pronunciation is given following the practice of Nanjing, not Beijing; a similar choice made a couple of hundred years ealier is also part of what&#8217;s behind the <a href=\"http:\/\/sino-platonic.org\/complete\/spp019_peking_beijing.pdf\">&#8220;Peking&#8221; spelling for what is now referred to as Beijing<\/a> (1 MB PDF). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No-Sword brings up Karl Richard Lepsius&#8217;s early, IPA-like system, with Matt linking to Google Print&#8217;s online edition of Standard Alphabet for Reducing Unwritten Languages and Foreign Graphic Systems to a Uniform Orthography in European Letters. The book groups Taiwanese, Hakka, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/early-universal-romanization-system\/\">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":[12,18,33,28,32,19,34,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-hakka","category-hokkien","category-languages","category-mandarin","category-romanization","category-taiwanese","category-writing-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","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=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}