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:
“You are the current of the frozen stream,
Shadow invisible, ambushed and vigilant flame.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person’s self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient’s cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)