Tâi-uân Lô-má-jī Phing-im Hong-àn
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Alphabet
The Taiwanese Romanization System uses 16 basic Latin letters (A, B, E, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, S, T, U), 7 digraphs (Kh, Ng, nn, Oo, Ph, Th, Ts) and a trigraph (Tsh). In addition, it uses five diacritics to represent the seven tones.
- nn is only used after a vowel to express nasalization, so it only appears capitalized in all-caps texts.
- Palatalization occurs when j, s, ts, tsh are followed by i, so ji, si, tsi, tshi are sometimes considered multigraphs.
- Of the 10 unused basic Latin letters, R is sometimes used to express dialectal vowels (ir and er), while the others (C, D, F, Q, V, W, X, Y, Z) are only used in loanwords.
Sample texts
- Tâi-lô
- Pe̍h-uē-jī (PUJ) sī tsı̍t khuán iōng Latin (Lô-má) phìng-im hē-thóng lâi siá Tâi-uân ê gí-giân ê su-bīn bûn-jī. In-uī tong-tshoo sī thuân-kàu-sū ín--jı̍p-lâi ê, sóo-í ia̍h-ū-lâng kā PUJ kiò-tsò Kàu-huē Lô-má-jī, hı̍k-tsiá sī kán-tshing Kàu-lô. Put-jî-kò hiān-tāi ê sú-iōng-tsiá bē-tsió m̄-sī kàu-tôo, kàu-tôo mā tsin tsē bē-hiáu PUJ.
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī (POJ) sī chı̍t khoán iōng Latin (Lô-má) phèng-im hē-thóng lâi siá Tâi-ôan ê gí-giân ê su-bīn bûn-jī. In-ūi tong-chho͘ sī thôan-kàu-sū ín--jı̍p-lâi ê, só͘-í ia̍h-ū-lâng kā POJ kiò-chò Kàu-hōe Lô-má-jī, he̍k-chiá sī kán-chheng Kàu-lô. Put-jî-kò hiān-tāi ê sú-iōng-chiá bē-chió m̄-sī kàu-tô͘, kàu-tô͘ mā chin chē bē-hiáu POJ.
- Hàn-jī
- 白話字是一款用拉丁（羅馬）拼音系統來寫臺灣的語言的書面文字。因為當初是傳教士引入來的，所以也有人共白話字叫做教會羅馬字，或者是簡稱教羅。不而過現代的使用者袂少毋是教徒，教徒嘛真濟袂曉白話字。
- IPA (without tones)
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Values
Consonants
Vowels & rhymes
- o pronounced [ə] ㄜ in general dialect in Kaohsiung and Tainan, [o] ㄛ in Taipei.
- -nn forms the nasal vowels
- There is also syllabic m and ng.
- ing pronounced [ɪəŋ], ik pronounced [ɪək̚].
Tones
A hyphen links elements of a compound word. A double hyphen indicates that the following syllable has a neutral tone and therefore that the preceding syllable does not undergo tone sandhi. In addition to the seven standard tones (1–5, 7 and 8), the sixth tone, which has merged with the second tone in most dialects, may be written with a breve accent ⟨◌̆⟩ where it has not. A ninth tone may be found in some contracted forms (e.g. 昨昏 cha̋ng, 'yesterday'), and the first syllable of some triplicated adjectives (e.g. 紅紅紅 a̋ng-âng-âng, "very red") and some borrowings (e.g. li̋n-jín, 'carrot'), and this can be written with a double acute accent ⟨◌̋⟩.
Computing
The IETF language tags register nan-Latn-tailo for Tâi-lô text.
Unicode codepoints
The following are tone characters and their respective Unicode codepoints used in Tâi-lô. The tones used by Tâi-lô should use Combining Diacritical Marks instead of Spacing Modifier Letters used by bopomofo. As Tâi-lô is not encoded in Big5, the prevalent encoding used in Traditional Chinese, some Taiwanese Romanization System letters are not directly encoded in Unicode, instead should be typed using combining diacritical marks officially.
Characters not directly encoded in Unicode requires premade glyphs in fonts in order for applications to correctly display the characters.
Font support
Fonts that currently support POJ includes:
- Charis SIL
- DejaVu
- Doulos SIL
- Linux Libertine
- Taigi Unicode
- Source Sans Pro
- I.Ming (8.00 onwards) from Ichiten Font Project
- Fonts made by justfont foundry
- Fonts modified and release in GitHub repository POJFonts : POJ Phiaute, Gochi Hand POJ, Nunito POJ, POJ Vibes, and POJ Garamond.
- Fonts modified and released by But Ko based on Source Han Sans: Genyog, Genseki, Gensen; based on Source Han Serif: Genyo, Genwan, Genryu.