Mandarin Chinese, Traditional Script

[Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com]

Name of requester          : Karen Broome

E-mail address of requester: karen_broome at spe.sony.com

Tag to be registered       : zh-cmn-Hant

English name of language   : Mandarin Chinese (Traditional)

Native name of language (transcribed into ASCII): Putonghua or Guoyu 

Reference to published description of the language (book or article):

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson.  1981.  Mandarin Chinese: A 
Functional Reference Grammar.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

Wang, Fred Fangyu.  1967.  Mandarin Chinese Dictionary: Chinese-English. 
Seton Hall: Seton Hall University Press.

Fenn, Henry Courtenay.  1967.  Speak Mandarin: A Beginning Text in Spoken 
Chinese.  3 vols.  New Haven: Yale University Press.

Dow, Francis D. M.  1972.  An Outline of Mandarin Phonetics.  2 vols. 
Canberra: Australian National University Press.


Any other relevant information:

This is intended to describe Mandarin Chinese when written in traditional 
Chinese orthography. This tag is requested because zh-Hant does not 
explicitly specify Mandarin Chinese.