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Chinese has only one transcription for each word? I guess you've never been to Taiwan. It only seems that way for Chinese because PRC is so much bigger. Taiwan
by bendmorris 16y ago
Chinese has only one transcription for each word? I guess you've never been to Taiwan. It only seems that way for Chinese because PRC is so much bigger. Taiwan uses a different romanization system.
I imagine the difficulty for Arabic would lie in the fact that there is no major player like China in the Arabic world.
- autarch 16y agoActually, if you look at street signs in Taiwan you'll see that the use multiple Romanization systems, often in the same city! I think it was in Kaohsiung that I saw the same character Romanized two different ways on two different streets. I'm not sure, but I think they're using some combination of Pinyin, Wade-Giles, and possibly something else. Even worse, I think some of the Romanizations used in Taiwan are just made up on the spot. My wife's name should be written "Hui Ling" in Pinyin, but for some reason her English teacher in Taiwan (who was Taiwanese) told her to write it as "Huey-Ling". So now we get phone calls asking for "Huey" all the time.
- yannickmahe 16y agoI thought that the ROC (Taiwan) government recently adopted pinyin as the official transcription of Chinese characters. All the other countries with Chinese as an official language have done so (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia), so it seemed logical. Do the local governments of Taiwan administrative division apply other transcription?