The history of yale romanization of cantonese and jyutping. The romanisation scheme options are yale, jyutping and cantonese pinyin favoured by guangdong academics. Cantonese in yale romanization and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Yale romanization of cantonese is one of the four romanization systems created at yale university for four different east asian languages. Converting traditional characters into yale romanization. Kok for his and parker pofei huangs textbook speak cantonese 1958. Although nowadays one can easily access cantodict online or use the hanping cantonese app, this book offers a more reliable academic reference in relation to crowdsourced online. Hi there, ive finally decided to do a video to explain the yaleinchina phonetic system that i love so much please excuse the noise midway through the video. Should hk standardize and teach a cantonese romanization. We empower you to type chinese online anytime, anywhere with any computer for free.
The purpose of this page is to inform library users about the basics of chinese romanization in the library system and facilitate searching the yale library catalog orbis as well as databases such as eureka and worldcat. Now you will be able to use the cantonese handwriting input and write in cantonese. Zhan bohui of the chinese dialects research centre. This page is adapted from the alalc romanization table for chinese, a 19page document. The yale romanizations are four systems created at yale university for romanizing the four east asian languages of mandarin, cantonese, korean, and japanese. Different cantonese pinyin standards, yale, jyutping and cantonese pinyin. It was popular in many language programs before being supplanted by hanyu pinyin. Googles gboard supports input in cantonese pinyin yale or jyutping. Download this cantonese and mandarin dictionary app for free and learn the meaning of words in these languages, see how they are pronounced in yale romanization cantonese or pinyin mandarin, get to know how to write them in simplified chinese or traditional chinese, and a lot more. The chrome version, oh dear lord, defaults to yale but will often work with jyutping and english approximated bastardization. Traditional and simplified characters on cantonese phonetic yale, linguistic society of hong kong jyutping, and hk government cantonese pinyin, standard.
It is the standard romanization of the korean language in linguistics. Unlike the yale romanization of mandarin, it is still widely used in books and dictionaries, especially for foreign learners. Googles android keyboard gboard now includes cantonese. Cantokey the favorite cantonese input i have found on iphone using jyutping input method. Installing cantonese input methods on mac, windows, ios, android.
If it had a mandarin pinyin listing as well, it would be a much more useful tool. A translator of cantonese yale to english and vis versa. Options relating to plecos chinese handwriting input addon. Yu ping chiu in 1971, and subsequently modified by the education department merged into the education and manpower bureau since 2003 of hong kong and prof. Yale romanization of korean, developed by samuel elmo martin and his colleagues at yale university around 1942 about half a decade after mccunereischauer. We also offer excellent customer support send us an email and see for yourself and an active user community at. The chart gives the romanization, a representative character ideal for native speakers to learn pingyam, and a recording of how the sound is pronounced. Pleco really mature dictionary that does flash cards wonderfully, but unfortunately lacks cantodict due to license issues. Cantonese jyutpingpinyinyale input system questions. Jyutping and yale are two of the most popular cantonese input methods. I learned cantonese using yale romanization, but im unable to type it easily because of the accent marks representing the tones.
Newest yaleromanization questions chinese language. For last characters in a word, you can just type the first letter of the romanization. This input module makes it possible to enter chinese characters into the newton by writing their romanizations. Im going to repurpose a reply i wrote a while back to someone else who directly inquired. The alternative phonemic analysis discussed in this post is much too abstract and. Yale romanization of cantonese wikipedia republished. Romanization conversion tool converts yale romanization to other cantonese romanization systems and other systems into yale. Great news to hear youre interested in learning cantonese. Btw, im working on database update and code repackage for coming windows 10. Cccanto is an optional download in the free section of the addons screen this site incorporates data from our opensource cccanto database along with data from the opensource cccedict database. One of the most difficult things for learners is to handle the multiple systems. Still, ive found this really useful as i dont have the inclination to learn chinese characters and most cantonese speakers dont know how to write using a romanization system.
Learn cantonese yaleinchina phonetic system youtube. Google cantonese input makes text input smart and easy. A new romanization system, called jyutping was adopted by the linguistic society of hong kong in 1993. The android version lets you choose between yale, jyutping, and cantonese pinyin. Pleco chinese dictionary for android free download and. Yale wnumbers yale romanization with a digit after each syllable to indicate tone. Yale romanization of cantonese, developed by gerard p. Cantoinput is a freely available, unicodebased chinese input method ime which allows you to type both traditional and simplified characters using cantonese romanization. The cantonese is written in yale romanisation no chinese characters so its of limited use to most ethnic cantonese speakers. Kok and parker pofei huangin 1952 and published in 1958. Online cantonese input method is a free online chinese typing tool using cantonese romanization codes. Yale is more intuitive to native english speakers, has a longer history, and can be found in traditional textbooks.
Cantonese romanization converter use aa to represent a long a when using chishima romanization do not use j, q and x when using guangdong romanization. Input cantonese with chinesewriter11 platform supported. Unfortunately there has been no wellestablished standard like hanyu pinyin. Chinese hong kong not the handwriting cantonese this extension is honestly one of the best keyboards i have ever used to type chinese characters in cantonese with yale romanization. The reason im writing this is because cantonese has been added to the ios keyboard, which is very exciting to this community.
Hkcantonime adopts several cantonese romanization schemes which are more popular and common to hongkonger. Is jyutping accepted as the best way to learn cantonese. Please note that you need to change android setting in. And while i dont think android includes a cantonese language keyboard feature, one can use the free hkime application to type using cantonese romanization im not sure if its jyutping its called canton pinyin on the keyboard, cangjie, stroke, among others. The most popular romanization systems include jyutping, yale and the sidney lau systems, however, some authors decide to make up their own systems, and the hong kong government uses yet another variation of romanization this system anglicizes cantonese words so theyre easier to pronounce for foreigners during the british colonial times. Most modern reference books and textbooks are now using yale romanization, but there are older systems that were used in older references. For those who are familiar with jyutping, please try our new online jyutping input method compatible with.
Cantonese can be typed using different romanization pronunciation methods. Jyutping is more modern, technologically recognized, phonetically accurate, and intuitive to native cantonese and ipa users. Convert chinese charactes to a romanisation system. Is it just me, or do the above seem like jyutping to yale conversions. It shares some similarities with hanyu pinyin in that unvoiced, unaspirated consonants are represented by letters traditionally used in. The yale romanizations analysis with five basic vowels was probably forced by the restriction of having only five basic vowel letters in the roman alphabet, with y being chosen to represent a glide, rather than by the nature of the korean sound system itself. Cantoneseromanization systems wikibooks, open books for. Cpime is the input method system which converts cantonese romanization. Is there a quick and easy way to do this without using a special character set or keyboard layout. Based on data i provided, joseph chen was kind enough to create a yale romanization input module for his chinese input system. A complete comparison between yale romanization of. Cantonese yale romanization input module for the newton. The yale romanization of cantonese was developed by gerard p.
A little trick was posted on the issues page can fix the problem temporarily. The dictionarys strong points are that it uses yale romanization for cantonese and standard pinyin for mandarin. Select the cantonese language under the configure languages option. Is it possible to type cantonese pinyin on an apple ios. You can then use any of the following to input characters. It also supports handwriting, stroke input, and cangjie. For a while, i was practically a collector of cantonese. In this post, ill talk a little about the current state of cantonese input.