TLPA

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TLPA is a romanization system used to represent the sounds of the Xiamen (Amoy) dialect of Southern Min Chinese using the Latin alphabet.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf romanization system
writing system for spoken language
appliesToLanguageGroup Southern Min NERFINISHED
appliesToLanguageVariety Amoy Southern Min NERFINISHED
Xiamen Southern Min NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo other Southern Min romanization systems
designedFor phonetic representation
distinguishes segmental phonemes
tones of Southern Min
domain Chinese linguistics
language documentation
phonology
encodes phonemes of Amoy Southern Min
phonemes of Xiamen Southern Min
languageBranch Min Chinese NERFINISHED
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages
languageSubfamily Chinese languages
notationType romanization of Chinese
purpose to represent Southern Min speech sounds in Latin script
represents sounds of Southern Min Chinese
sounds of the Amoy dialect
sounds of the Xiamen dialect
scriptType alphabetic
targetDialect Amoy NERFINISHED
Xiamen NERFINISHED
usedBy language learners of Xiamen Southern Min
linguists studying Southern Min
usedIn description of Xiamen dialect pronunciation
uses Latin letters with diacritics
usesScript Latin alphabet
writingDirection left-to-right

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