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The Pollard script, also known as Pollard Miao (Chinese: 柏格理苗文; pinyin: Bó Gélǐ Miáo-wén) or Miao, is an abugida loosely based on the Latin alphabet and invented by Methodist missionary Sam Pollard. Pollard invented the script for use with A-Hmao, one of several Miao languages spoken in southeast Asia.
In China, letters of the English alphabet are pronounced somewhat differently because they have been adapted to the phonetics (i.e. the syllable structure) of the Chinese language. The knowledge of this spelling may be useful when spelling Western names, especially over the phone, as one may not be understood if the letters are pronounced as ...
The meeting reviewed and approved the pronunciations of more than 6,500 characters. The second step was to identify phonemes and formulate letters. It was decided to formally adopt the "phonetic recording alphabet" temporarily used when reviewing the pronunciations of Chinese characters and name it "Phonetic Symbols, or Bopomofo" (注音字母 ...
The Hmongic languages, also known as Miao languages (Chinese: 苗语; pinyin: Miáoyǔ), include the various languages spoken by the Miao people (such as Hmong, Hmu, and Xong). Hmongic languages also include various languages spoken by non- Mienic -speaking Yao people , such as Pa-Hng , Bunu , Jiongnai , Younuo , and others, while She is spoken ...
Despite the Chinese government encouraging its replacement with a Latin-based Zhuang alphabet, sawndip remains in use. [164] Other non-Sinitic languages of China historically written with Chinese characters include Miao, Yao, Bouyei, Bai, and Hani; each of these are now written with Latin-based alphabets designed for use with each language. [165]
The Hmong–Mien languages (also known as Miao–Yao and rarely as Yangtzean) [1] are a highly tonal language family of southern China and northern Southeast Asia.They are spoken in mountainous areas of southern China, including Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guangdong and Hubei provinces; the speakers of these languages are predominantly "hill people", in contrast to the ...
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. Hanyu ( 汉语 ; 漢語 ) literally means ' Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while pinyin literally means 'spelled sounds'.
Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages. Chinese characters do not directly represent pronunciation, unlike letters in an alphabet or syllabograms in a syllabary .