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:
“But there, where I have garnered up my heart,
Where either I must live or bear no life;
The fountain from the which my current runs
Or else dries up: to be discarded thence,
Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads
To knot and gender in!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)