Sidney Lau romanisation
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Sidney Lau romanisation is a system of romanisation for Cantonese that was developed in the 1970s by Sidney Lau for teaching Cantonese to Hong Kong Government expatriates. It is based on the Hong Kong Government's Standard Romanisation which was the result of the work of James D. Ball and Ernst J. Eitel about a century earlier.
Innovation
Lau's romanisation indicates tonality with superscript numbers, so no diacritics are required.[1] His system was a plain attempt at simplification which proved popular with western learners of Cantonese as a second language and was initially the system of romanisation adopted by the University of Hong Kong.[2] However, the university now employs the Jyutping system for its Cantonese courses.[3]
Initials
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| j Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
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Finals
In his system, Lau treats /ɵ/ and /o/ as allophones of one phoneme represented with "u", while they are often respectively regarded as allophones of /œ:/ and /u:/ in other systems.[4]
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| Vowel | Script error: No such module "IPA". | a Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
aai Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
aau Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
aam Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
aan Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
aang Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
aap Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
aat Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
aak Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | ai Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
au Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
am Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
an Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
ang Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
ap Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
at Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
ak Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". | ||
| Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "IPA". |
e Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
ei Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
eng Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
ek Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". | ||||||
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | i Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
iu Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
im Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
in Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
ing Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
ip Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
it Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
ik Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". | ||
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | oh Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
oi Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
o Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
on Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
ong Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
ot Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
ok Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". | |||
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | oo Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
ooi Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
oon Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
oot Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
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ui Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
un Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
ung Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
ut Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
uk Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". | |||||
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | euh Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
eung Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
euk Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". | |||||||
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | ue Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
uen Script error: No such module "IPA". Script error: No such module "Lang". |
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Tones
| Tone symbol | Tone description | Example | ||
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| Romanization | Word | Meaning | ||
| 1° or N° | high flat | si1° | Script error: No such module "Lang". | poem |
| ga1 je2° | Script error: No such module "Lang". | elder sister | ||
| 1 | high falling | tim1 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | final particle expressing
the idea of addition or regret. |
| 2 or N* | mid rising | si2 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | history |
| dik1 si6* | Script error: No such module "Lang". | taxi | ||
| 3 | mid flat | si3 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | try |
| 4 | low falling | si4 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | time |
| 5 | low rising | si5 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | city |
| 6 | low flat | si6 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | is |
1° indicates the high flat tone. If ° appears after any other tones, it signifies a changed tone and that the word is to be pronounced as 1°, but 1° is not the original/normal tone of the word. Similar to °, if * appears after any tones apart from tone 2, it indicates that the word is to be pronounced as tone 2, but tone 2 is not the original/normal tone of the word.[5]
See also
References
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