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 (see Logkarng-khviw). Finally, tone 9 (a̋, as in bua̋-kín, bøo-iaokirn) appears in 16 entries.
| 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, exclusive to Samkiab | hoefkef, zuykef | 35 |