wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs

[Andrew Cunningham]

2008/8/26 John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org>

> Andrew Cunningham scripsit:
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> Hmm.  Do you have a pointer to how this is done?
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For Tibetan: http://www.eki.ee/wgrs/rom1_bo.pdf, can also search Wikipedia
for the article on Tibetan pinyin.

General principle for pinyin usage in identifying place names available in
http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/maplib/ungegn/session-8/working-papers/working-paper10.pdf

But seems to be moves to also apply it to peoples names, birth records etc.


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> John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan<http://www.ccil.org/%7Ecowan>
> cowan at ccil.org
> To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
> are
> no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
> that
> they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --The
> Hobbit
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Andrew Cunningham
Vicnet Research and Development Coordinator
State Library of Victoria
Australia

andrewc at vicnet.net.au
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