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Re: Bopomofo and pinyin

From:Acadon <acadon@...>
Date:Friday, January 21, 2000, 1:04
nicole perrin wrote:
> > No one seems to be familiar with the Yale system,
Well --- maybe not "nobody." I used it for years, have maybe 25 books using it.
> and neither was I, but I found this webpage > > http://liberty.uc.wlu.edu/%7Ehhill/tlit.html > > for anyone who can see it. It's not the greatest, but it seems pretty > helpful. > Nicole -- nicole.eap@snet.net
Actually, the Pinyin system was based on the Yale system, though it would have been very politically incorrect to have acknowledged such in the PRC at the time. Bopomofo is or was much used on Taiwan for teaching Mandarin pronunciation. Regards, Leo J. Moser