Pe̍h-ōe-jī

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Pe̍h-ōe-jī is a Latin-based orthography developed by Western missionaries for writing Southern Min (Hokkien) and related Chinese dialects.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Pe̍h-ōe-jī canonical 7
Pe̍h-ōe-jī (adapted for Teochew) 1

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf orthography
romanization system
writing system
countryAssociated China
Taiwan, Province of China
surface form: Taiwan
developedBy Presbyterian missionaries
Western missionaries
developedFor Bible translation
Christian missionary work
literacy promotion
religious literature
earliestDevelopment 1830s
encodes finals
initial consonants
nasalization
tone
hasAlternativeName Church Romanization
POJ
Pe̍h-oē-jī
historicalPeriodOfDevelopment 19th century
influenced Modern Literal Taiwanese
Taiwanese Romanization System
surface form: Taiwanese Romanization System (Tâi-lô)
languageFamilyTargeted Chinese
Sinitic languages
languageWritten Amoy Hokkien
Hokkien
Southern Min
Taiwanese Hokkien
Teochew
notableContributor Elihu Doty
John Van Nest Talmage
Thomas Barclay
Walter Henry Medhurst
primaryFunction phonemic transcription of Southern Min
regionUsed Fujian
Southeast Asia
Formosa
surface form: Taiwan

overseas Hokkien communities
script Latin alphabet
standardizedIn late 19th century
usedFor Taiwanese Hokkien dictionaries
Taiwanese Hokkien newspapers
church bulletins
educational materials
hymnals
usesCharacter tone marks on vowels
ʻ (glottal stop mark)
ⁿ (superscript n)
usesDiacriticsFor tones
vowel quality
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystemType Latin-based orthography

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hokkien language writingSystem Pe̍h-ōe-jī
Taiwanese Hokkien romanizationSystem Pe̍h-ōe-jī
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ influencedBy Pe̍h-ōe-jī
Chiuchow hasRomanizationSystem Pe̍h-ōe-jī
this entity surface form: Pe̍h-ōe-jī (adapted for Teochew)
Minnan language usesRomanization Pe̍h-ōe-jī
Xiamen dialect romanizationSystem Pe̍h-ōe-jī
Hoklo language usesRomanizationSystem Pe̍h-ōe-jī
Hokkien writingSystem Pe̍h-ōe-jī