Taiwanese Modern Spelling System

Taiwanese Modern Spelling System (TMSS)

• In 1943, four classmates in Tainan 2nd Middle School started compiling Taiwanese words and assigning spellings for translating English sentences. A spelling rule for Taiwanese words in the Latin alphabet was later found and named the Taiwanese Modern Spelling System.
• Words in TMSS are based on the pronunciation given in the Dictionary of the Amoy Vernacular by Rev. W. Campbell, Tainan, 1913.
• TMSS was the foundation for Modern Literal Taiwanese

• http://www.edutech.org.tw/A1/TMSS-T.htm
• http://www.edutech.org.tw/Publn/MLT-Promotion.htm