Bbánlám pìngyīm

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 alphabet was developed by Xiamen University.

Sinitic (Chinese) romanization
Mandarin
Standard Mandarin
Sichuanese
Wu
General Wu
Wenzhounese
Yue
Cantonese
Min
Hokkien
Teochew
Fuzhounese
Northern Min
Pu-Xian Min
Hainanese
Gan
Nanchang-Duchang dialect
Hakka
Meixian dialect
Sixian dialect
Xiang
Chang–Yi dialects
Polylectal
General Chinese
See also
Other transliterations
By place
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Written Hokkien
Chinese characters
(Hàn-jī)
Romanizations
(Lô-má-jī)
Mixed script
(Hàn-lô)
Other transcriptions

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).[3]

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 ABBbCDEGGgHIKLMNNgOOoPSTUWYZZz
bp lower case abbbcdeggghiklmnngooopstuwyzzz

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. 林宝卿 (1999). 闽南话教程 [A Southern Min Primer]. Xiamen: Xiamen University Press. p. 3. ISBN 7-5615-0531-0.
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