Correction for pinyin

Philip Newton philip.newton at gmail.com
Mon Mar 8 16:24:21 CET 2010


On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 13:45, Alexandre Lecoq <alexandre.lecoq at live.fr> wrote:
>
> There is no such thing as a Pinyin language.

Yes, there is; it's spoken in Cameroon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin_language ,
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=pny

> Pinyin (pinyin) is a variant of
> Latin script (Latn).
> It is a phonetic transcription using latin alphabet,

That's another meaning of "Pinyin", yes. But not the one meant by the
language tag "pny".

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>


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