<div dir="ltr"><br>playing devil's advocate:<br><br>If zh-pinyin is Mandarin in Hanyu Pinyin, can the pinyin variant be used with other languages, since Mongol, Uyghur, and Tibetan, etc can be officially transcribed in Pinyin in PRC?<br>
<br>And at the moment I'll refrain from discussing other romanisation schemes such as Tongyong Pinyin and Guangdong romanization?<br><br><br>Andrew<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Andrew Cunningham<br>Vicnet Research and Development Coordinator<br>
State Library of Victoria<br>Australia<br><br><a href="mailto:andrewc@vicnet.net.au">andrewc@vicnet.net.au</a><br><a href="mailto:lang.support@gmail.com">lang.support@gmail.com</a><br>
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