http://www.sinoglot.com/wu 吳國之記事 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:20:16 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.sinoglot.com/wu/pinyin-ipa-or-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-1000 Zhou Libo’s New Book: Hui Cidian | Sinosplice: Life Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:33:51 +0000 http://www.bjshengr.com/wu/?page_id=52#comment-1000 [...] Pinyin, IPA or Characters? [...] [...] Pinyin, IPA or Characters? [...]

]]> http://www.sinoglot.com/wu/pinyin-ipa-or-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-626 the Annals of Wu » The Return of Shanghainese Saturday Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:23:42 +0000 http://www.bjshengr.com/wu/?page_id=52#comment-626 [...] will also serve as an archive of previous postings. For a quick rundown of the relevant IPA letters click here or the “Pinyin, IPA or Characters?” link at the bottom of the [...] [...] will also serve as an archive of previous postings. For a quick rundown of the relevant IPA letters click here or the “Pinyin, IPA or Characters?” link at the bottom of the [...]

]]> http://www.sinoglot.com/wu/pinyin-ipa-or-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-60 the Annals of Wu » On Writing Wu with Characters Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:40:23 +0000 http://www.bjshengr.com/wu/?page_id=52#comment-60 [...] to find specifically covering 常州方言 have been without any real phonetic transliterations, IPA or otherwise. Instead characters are used and loosely at that. 《常州方言》which I bought [...] [...] to find specifically covering 常州方言 have been without any real phonetic transliterations, IPA or otherwise. Instead characters are used and loosely at that. 《常州方言》which I bought [...]

]]> http://www.sinoglot.com/wu/pinyin-ipa-or-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-24 the Annals of Wu » Books: Chángzhōu Fāngyán Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:24:00 +0000 http://www.bjshengr.com/wu/?page_id=52#comment-24 [...] It’s mostly vocabulary, though there were other books at Xinhua that were truly only vocabulary. More nerdy than practical, it doesn’t include any IPA or transcription to speak of. Instead everything is done with characters. Which means first you must know the obscure characters with which Wu is sometimes written and then you must know the pronunciation of that character in the dialect. I had mentioned this problem on the transcription page. [...] [...] It’s mostly vocabulary, though there were other books at Xinhua that were truly only vocabulary. More nerdy than practical, it doesn’t include any IPA or transcription to speak of. Instead everything is done with characters. Which means first you must know the obscure characters with which Wu is sometimes written and then you must know the pronunciation of that character in the dialect. I had mentioned this problem on the transcription page. [...]

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