Hainan Romanized

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Hainanese Romanized

Bǽh-oe-tu

Bible in Hainanese Romanised (Genesis), published by the Bible Society of Great Britain.

Script type|

Latin alphabet

(modified)
Creator| Carl C. Jeremiassen

Time period

| c. 1890 — ?
Languages| Haikou dialect of Hainanese
Related scripts

Parent systems

Pe̍h-ōe-jī

* Hainanese Romanized

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Sinitic (Chinese) romanization

Mandarin

Standard Mandarin

* Hanyu Pinyin (ISO standard)
* EFEO
* Gwoyeu Romatzyh
* Spelling conventions
* Latinxua Sin Wenz
* Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II
* Postal romanization
* Tongyong Pinyin
* Wade–Giles
* Yale romanization
* Lessing-Othmer
* Legge romanization
* Simplified Wade
* Comparison chart

Sichuanese

* Sichuanese Pinyin
* Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz

General Wu

* Romanization of Wu Chinese

Wenzhounese

* Wenzhounese romanization

Yue

Cantonese

* Jyutping
* Yale romanization
* Guangdong Romanization
* Hong Kong Government
* Macau Government
* Meyer–Wempe
* Sidney Lau
* S. L. Wong (phonetic symbols)
* S. L. Wong (romanization)
* Cantonese Pinyin
* Standard Romanization
* Barnett–Chao
* Comparison chart

Min

Hokkien

* Pe̍h-ōe-jī
* Modern Literal Taiwanese
* Phofsit Daibuun
* Habhunwe Latinxua Sin Bhundzi
* Bbánlám pìngyīm
* Daighi tongiong pingim
* TLPA
* Tâi-lô
* Comparison chart

Teochew

* Peng'im
* Pe̍h-ūe-jī

Fuzhounese

* Foochow Romanized
* Fuzhou Transliteration Scheme

Northern Min

* Kienning Colloquial Romanized

Pu-Xian Min

* Hinghwa Romanized

Hainanese

* Hainan Romanized (Haikou dialect)
* Hainanese Transliteration Scheme (Wenchang dialect)

Gan

Nanchang-Duchang dialect

* Pinfa
* Pha̍k-oa-chhi

Hakka

Meixian dialect

* Pinfa
* Hagfa Pinyim

Sixian dialect

* Pha̍k-fa-sṳ
* TLPA

Xiang

Chang–Yi dialects

* Pinfa

Polylectal

General Chinese

* Romanized General Chinese

See also

Other transliterations

* Character-based General Chinese
* Cyrillization
* Xiao'erjing
* 'Phags-pa script
* Bopomofo
* Taiwanese kana
* Taiwanese Phonetic Symbols
* Mongolian transliteration of Chinese characters
* Manchu transliteration
* Transcription into Chinese

By place

* Romanization in Hong Kong
* Romanization in Singapore
* Romanization in Taiwan

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Hainanese Romanized, also known as its local name Bǽh-oe-tu (白話字), is an orthography similar to Pe̍h-oē-jī, and used to write Haikou dialect of the Hainanese language. It was invented by Carl C. Jeremiassen, a Danish pioneer missionary in Fucheng (modern Haikou) in 1881.

## Spelling schemes[edit]

### Consonants[edit]

Bǽh-oe-tu | Example | Pronunciation

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b | 巴敗包 | ʔɓ
m | 妈母矛 | m
f | 抛派炮 | f
v | 我眉馬 | v
t | 三知聲 | t
d | 担待豆 | ʔɗ
n | 拿乃腦 | n
l | 拉利漏 | l
c | 正鳥爭 | ts
s | 差猜抄 | s
j | 雅也熱 | z
k | 交官縣 | k
g | 傲牙俄 | ŋ
kh | 摳科區 | x
h | 偷听花 | h

### Vowels[edit]

Bǽh-oe-tu | Example | Pronunciation

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a | ... | a
ai | ... | ai
au | ... | au
am | ... | am
ag | ... | aŋ
ab | ... | ap
ak | ... | ak
e | ... | e
eg | ... | eŋ
ek | ... | ek
æ | ... | ɛ
i | ... | i
ia | ... | ia
iag | ... | iaŋ
io | ... | io
iu | ... | iu
im | ... | im
in | ... | in
ib | ... | ip
it | ... | it
o | ... | o
og | ... | oŋ
ok | ... | ok
o͘ | ... | ɔ
u | ... | u
ui | ... | ui
oa | ... | ua
oai | ... | uai
oag | ... | uaŋ
oat | ... | uat
oak | ... | uak
oe | ... | ue
... | ... | ...
... | ... | ...
... | ... | ...
... | ... | ...
... | ... | ...

### Tones[edit]

Tonal types | Tone Marks | Example

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yin ping | none | 安天

yang ping | ◌̂ | 平人

shang sheng | ◌́ | 古女

yin qu | ◌̀ | 正變

yang qu | ◌̄ | 謝厚

yin ru | none
(-b/-t/-k/-h) | 急七

yang ru | ◌́
(-b/-t/-k/-h) | 六十

## Sample texts from Hainanese Bibles[edit]

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## See also[edit]

* Hainanese Transliteration Scheme (海南话拼音方案)

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