Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II - Features

Features

  • Indication of tone by respelling, as used in Gwoyeu Romatzyh (GR), is eliminated. Syllables are spelled like GR's tone one for non-nasal initials, and like tone two for nasal initials. Tone is then marked with four diacritics identical to Zhuyin's.
  • The romanization of the consonants is identical to GR's.
  • It uses r for both:
    • ㄖ (pinyin r), and
    • what is written in pinyin as i after zh, ch, sh, r. (Although this use of r has a tonal diacritic on it and is always final.) This use is identical to Yale.
  • It uses z for both:
    • ㄗ (pinyin z), and
    • what is written in pinyin as i after z, c, s. (Although this use of z has a tonal diacritic on it and is always final.) This use is somewhat like Yale.
      • The z is not written after tz (i.e., no tzz), however. Tz corresponds to Pinyin zi.
  • Like GR, -iou, -uen, and -uei are all written out, unlike the Pinyin/Wade -iu, -un, and -ui.
  • GR's au persists (as opposed to the ao of Pinyin, Wade-Giles, and the later Tongyong Pinyin.)
  • GR's iu (Pinyin ü) is written as -iu and yu (alone).
  • GR's -ong is spelled now -ung (like Wade-Giles).
  • GR's el is spelled now er (like Pinyin).
  • Y- and w- are added to or replace i and u (respectively) in ways similar to GR and identical to Pinyin.

An example of MPS II: "國語注音符號第二式" is written as guó-yǔ jù-yīn fú-hàu dì-èr shr̀. Compare with pinyin, which writes it as guóyǔ zhùyīn fúhào dì'èr shì and to GR, which writes it as gwoyeu juh'in fwuhaw dih'ell shyh.

Spaces are generally used in place of hyphens, except in personal names, which use hyphens in between the syllables of the given names.

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