Description
Sin Wenz was designed so that every dialect had its own form of the alphabet. The letters below represent only one of the thirteen possible schemes present, the below form being that for Northern Mandarin.
Much of Sin Wenz is similar to Pinyin in its orthography. However, palatal affricates are written with the same letters as velar stops, so Beijing is written as "Beiging" in Sin Wenz. Other differences include the usage of "x" for both the sounds and, so the characters 畫 (pinyin: huà) and 下 (pinyin: xià) are written as "xua" and "xia".
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