language variant subtag "tongyong" addition request (for Chinese langugaes romanization)
Phake Nick <[email protected]> Fri, 21 Dec 2018 17:29:15 +0800
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1. Name of requester: Phake Nick 2. E-mail address of requester: [email protected] 3. Record Requested: Type: variant Subtag: tongyong Description: Tongyong Pinyin romanization Prefix: zh-Latn Prefix: hak-Latn Prefix: nan-Latn Comments: Former official transcription standard for Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese Min-Nan, and variant of Hakka language in Taiwan. 4. Intended meaning of the subtag: Indicate Romanized content that use Tongyong pinyin romanization 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article): https://medium.com/@lovenery/%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3%E7%9A%84%E6%8B%BC%E9%9F%B3%E5%A4%A7%E6%88%B0-acfe429c071d (Chinese article on medium, can be read via Google Translate, note that Google Translate currently translated "Tongyong pinyin" into "Universal pinyin" and translated "Wade-Giles" into Wittoma/Westin) 6. Any other relevant information: The transcription standard was official in Taiwan in the mid-2000s. It have now been displaced by Pinyin romanization as the official transcription rule for Chinese languages in Taiwan, however it is still continually being used to certain extent within Taiwan and thus it could/would be helpful to have a variant subtag to separate it from Pinyin romanization.