Correction for pinyin

Mark Davis ☕ mark at macchiato.com
Mon Mar 8 18:31:43 CET 2010


A few people have stumbled over this; it might be useful to add a note in
the Description, if anyone's up for submitting a form.

Mark


On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 07:24, Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> --
> Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>
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