Meyer–Wempe
Template:Short description Template:RCL Meyer–Wempe romanization was the system used by two Roman Catholic missionaries in Hong Kong, Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe, for romanizing Cantonese in their Student's Cantonese English Dictionary published in 1935.[1]
Provenance
Although some [2] attribute development of the system to them, there was nothing new in it[1]Template:Rp as their entire schema followed the system devised in the last decade of the 19th century known as Standard Romanization (SR), which, in turn, was almost identical to John Chalmers' system of 1870.[3] Chalmers' system was significant in that it was the first system to virtually do away with diacritics entirely, the sole survivor being his final ö, which is eu in the Standard Romanization while being in this one oeh.
Initials
| p Script error: No such module "IPA". |
p' Script error: No such module "IPA". |
m Script error: No such module "IPA". |
f Script error: No such module "IPA". |
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| t Script error: No such module "IPA". |
t' Script error: No such module "IPA". |
n Script error: No such module "IPA". |
l Script error: No such module "IPA". | |
| k Script error: No such module "IPA". |
k' Script error: No such module "IPA". |
ng Script error: No such module "IPA". |
h Script error: No such module "IPA". |
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| kw Script error: No such module "IPA". |
k'w Script error: No such module "IPA". |
oo, w Script error: No such module "IPA". | ||
| ts Script error: No such module "IPA". |
ts' Script error: No such module "IPA". |
s Script error: No such module "IPA". |
i, y Script error: No such module "IPA". | |
| ch Script error: No such module "IPA". |
ch' Script error: No such module "IPA". |
sh Script error: No such module "IPA". |
The distinction between the alveolar sibilants (Script error: No such module "IPA"., Script error: No such module "IPA"., and Script error: No such module "IPA".) and alveolo-palatal sibilants (Script error: No such module "IPA"., Script error: No such module "IPA"., and Script error: No such module "IPA".) has been lost in modern Cantonese, though the distinction still existed at the time this system was devised. See Cantonese phonology for more information.
Finals
| a Script error: No such module "IPA". |
aai Script error: No such module "IPA". |
aau Script error: No such module "IPA". |
aam Script error: No such module "IPA". |
aan Script error: No such module "IPA". |
aang Script error: No such module "IPA". |
aap Script error: No such module "IPA". |
aat Script error: No such module "IPA". |
aak Script error: No such module "IPA". |
| ai Script error: No such module "IPA". |
au Script error: No such module "IPA". |
am, om Script error: No such module "IPA". |
an Script error: No such module "IPA". |
ang Script error: No such module "IPA". |
ap, op Script error: No such module "IPA". |
at Script error: No such module "IPA". |
ak Script error: No such module "IPA". | |
| e Script error: No such module "IPA". |
ei Script error: No such module "IPA". |
eng Script error: No such module "IPA". |
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| i Script error: No such module "IPA". |
iu Script error: No such module "IPA". |
im Script error: No such module "IPA". |
in Script error: No such module "IPA". |
ing Script error: No such module "IPA". |
ip Script error: No such module "IPA". |
it Script error: No such module "IPA". |
ik Script error: No such module "IPA". | |
| oh Script error: No such module "IPA". |
oi Script error: No such module "IPA". |
o Script error: No such module "IPA". |
on Script error: No such module "IPA". |
ong Script error: No such module "IPA". |
ot Script error: No such module "IPA". |
ok Script error: No such module "IPA". | ||
| oo Script error: No such module "IPA". |
ooi Script error: No such module "IPA". |
oon Script error: No such module "IPA". |
ung Script error: No such module "IPA". |
oot Script error: No such module "IPA". |
uk Script error: No such module "IPA". | |||
| oeh Script error: No such module "IPA". |
ui Script error: No such module "IPA". |
un Script error: No such module "IPA". |
eung Script error: No such module "IPA". |
ut Script error: No such module "IPA". |
euk Script error: No such module "IPA". | |||
| ue Script error: No such module "IPA". |
uen Script error: No such module "IPA". |
uet Script error: No such module "IPA". |
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| m Script error: No such module "IPA". |
ng Script error: No such module "IPA". |
The finals m and ng can only be used as standalone nasal syllables.
Tones
Diacritics are used to mark the six tones of Cantonese.[4] The tone mark should be placed above the first letter of the final.
| No. | Description | Contour | Tone mark | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | high flat/high falling | 55 / 53 | No mark | ma |
| 2 | high rising | 35 | Acute accent ( ´ ) | má |
| 3 | mid flat | 33 | Grave accent ( ` ) | mà |
| 4 | low falling | 21 | Circumflex ( ˆ ) | mâ |
| 5 | low rising | 23 | Breve ( ˘ ) | mă |
| 6 | low flat | 22 | Macron( ¯ ) | mā |
References
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