Social:Bbánlám pìngyīm

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Short description: Romanization system for the Amoy version of the Hokkien Southern Min language

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Bbánlám Uē Pìngyīm Hōng'àn[1] (Chinese: 閩南話拼音方案; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bân-lâm Ōe Pheng-im Hong-àn), Bbánlám pìngyīm, Minnan pinyin or simply pingyim, is a romanization system for Hokkien Southern Min, in particular the Amoy (Xiamen) version of this language.[2] This romanization system was devised at Xiamen University and first published in the 1982 普通話閩南方言詞典 (Mandarin-Hokkien Dictionary).[3]

Names

Various names are used such as Bbínpīn Hōngàn (Chinese: 閩拼方案), BbínPīn or BP (閩拼). It is commonly known as Pumindian (普閩典) in Taiwan, named after the Mandarin-Southern Min Dictionary (simplified Chinese: 普通话闽南语词典; traditional Chinese: 普通話閩南語詞典; pinyin: Pǔtōnghuà Mǐnnányǔ Cídiǎn) where the system is used, but the formal Chinese name is Southern Min Language Spelling System (闽南话拼音方案; 閩南話拼音方案; Mǐnnán Huà Pīnyīn Fāng'àn).[4]

Alphabet

The BP alphabet adopts the Latin alphabet of 20 letters, 5 digraphs and 5 diacritics to express the basic sounds of the Min Nan language:

bp capital letter A B Bb C D E G Gg H I K L M N Ng O Oo P S T U W Y Z Zz
bp lower case a b bb c d e g gg h i k l m n ng o oo p s t u w y z zz

Notes

  1. ↑ The two apostrophes here are not needed for native speakers (since *Hōngg and *Hōn cannot be a valid syllable in Hokkien), but is used within the official orthography. It would be written as Bbánlám Ōe Pìngyīm Hōngàn in practice.
  2. ↑ Versions for the Quanzhou and Zhangzhou dialects are also devised, but not popular.
  3. ↑ Hompot, Sebestyén (2018). Schottenhammer, Angela. ed. "Xiamen at the Crossroads of Sino-Foreign Linguistic Interaction during the Late Qing and Republican Periods: The Issue of Hokkien Phoneticization". Crossroads: Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World (OSTASIEN Verlag) 17/18: 196. ISSN 2190-8796. https://crossroads-research.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/CR-17-18-2020-06-23.pdf. 
  4. ↑ 林宝卿 (1999). Xiamen: Xiamen University Press. p. 3. ISBN 7-5615-0531-0.