TL

Taiwanese Romanization System (臺灣閩南語羅馬字拼音方案; TRS: Tâi-uân Lô-má-jī Phing-im Hong-àn; MTL: Taioaan Lømafji Pheng'ym Hong'axn) is derived from Pe̍h-ōe-jī and has been officially promoted by the Ministry of Education since 2006.

Dialectal Vowels

In TRS, r denotes dialectical vowels such as found in han-tsîr (hancii), (also in lauxsw), 螺 lêr in zhanlee. Lukang, Sanxia, Taipei, Kinmen, Magong, Hsinchu tend toward Quanzhou pronunciation, and will be the dialect areas tending to use these vowels. Lukang also has 6th tone vowels. Finally, tone 9 (a̋, as in bua̋-kín, bøo-iaokirn) appears in 16 entries.

Dialectical vowels

Tâi-lô	IPA	Bopomofo	Description	Example	# Entries in TSS
ir	ɨ	ㆨ	close central unrounded vowel, between i and u	hii, hancii, lauxsw	56
er	ə	ㄜ	Schwa / mid central vowel	zhanlee	~90
ee	ɛ	ㄝ	open-mid front unrounded vowel, between a and e	(see 廈門)	0
ere	əe		Schwa + e (øe), exclusive to Samkiab	(see: kef, kef (lo), khef)	83

See Also

• MoeDict
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• Template:ee
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