The politico-cultural implications of Taiwanese romanization

Language Log 2025-03-13

Summary:

Which do you think is harder — reading and writing Taiwanese with characters (sinographs) or with romanization? I maintain — and I have tried to show over the years — that it's much easier to read Taiwanese written with roman letters than with Chinese characters.  The same is true of all vernacular Sinitic languages. It […]

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https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=68565&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-politico-cultural-implications-of-taiwanese-romanization

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

03/13/2025, 06:16

Date published:

03/12/2025, 22:44