Re: Bopomofo and pinyin
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 23, 2000, 5:26 |
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On Fri, 22 Jan 0100 14:43:51 -0500, John Cowan <cowan@...>
wrote:
>How's this for pinyin with tonal spellings? Follow each syllable
>with the requisite number of v's (the only Latin letter not use
>in pinyin) to indicate the tone, thus mav, mavv, mavvv, mavvvv.
Quadruple v's? How about, since only n, ng, and r occur at the end of a
syllable, other consonants could be used to mark tone. So for instance:
mah, maz, mav, mak?
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