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 accent, and will be the dialect areas tending to use these vowels.

Dialectical vowels

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

• ee is the open-mid front unrounded vowel ɛ, not used
• tone markings:
  • Tone 6: Lukang accent uses the 6th tone
  • Tone 9: marked with the double acute accent (e.g. a̋, as in bua̋-kín, contraction of bøo-iaokirn) appears in 16 entries

See Also

• MoeDict
• Template:ir
• Template:er
• Template:ee
• Template:ere