The Current System
The MLT alphabet adopts the Latin alphabet of 26 letters to express the basic sounds of Taiwanese:
- a b c ch e f g h i j k kh l m n ng ΓΈ o p ph q r s t th u v y z zh
A MLT word, like each English word, can be formed by only one syllable or several syllables, with the two syllables being the most typical. Each syllable in MLT follows either one of the two underlying patterns (phonemes inside the bracket are optional):
- + + vowel +
- + vowel + +
Read more about this topic: Modern Literal Taiwanese
Famous quotes containing the words current and/or system:
“I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the test of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic form will reveal itself as platitudinous and effete. That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.”
—Jane Addams (1860–1935)
“Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.”
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)