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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 close central unrounded vowel, between i and u hii, hancii, lauxsw 56
er ə Schwa / mid central vowel zhanlee ~90
ere əe Schwa + e (øe), exclusive to Samkiab (see: kef, kef (lo), khef) 83

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