Modern Taiwanese Language

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="keywords" content="taiwanese, modern, literal, association"> <meta name="description" content="Modern Taiwanese Language."> <meta name="robots" content="all"> <title>Modern Taiwanese Language</title> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <style type="text/css" media="all"> @import "mtl.css"; </style> </head><body> <div id="container"> <div id="intro" href="http://taioaan.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cidciaq_Titw"> <div id="pageHeader"> <h1><span>MTLA</span></h1> </div> <div id="quickSummary"> <p class="p1"><span></span></p> <br> <p class="p2"><span> <font size=+1> <a href="http://learntaiwanese.org/indexTW.html">婕㈡枃</a></span> | <a href="http://LearnTaiwanese.org/presentation">Presentation</a>  </div> </font> <div id="preamble"> <h2><span>What is Taiwanese?</span></h2> Taiwanese is: <ul> <li>spoken by about 70% of the population of <a href=http://taioaan.org>Taiwan</a> (15 million native speakers). <li>a vernacular but can be written in orthographies such as the popular Pe虓h-艒e-j墨 (<a href="http://taioaan.org/wiki/index.php?title=POJ">POJ</a>) as well as <a href="http://taioaan.org/wiki/index.php?title=Modern Literal Taiwanese">Modern Literal Taiwanese</a> (MLT) which is also known as Modern Taiwanese Language (MTL). </ul> <p><b>Modern Taiwanese Language (MTL)</b> was created by <a href="http://www.edutech.org.tw">Dr. Liim Keahioong</a>, a professor at Cheng-Kung University in <a href="http://taioaan.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tailaam">Tainan, Taiwan</a>; Dr. Liim had practiced MTL for more than 60 years (1943 - 2012). MTL adopts the letters of the English <a href= mltalphabet.pdf > alphabet</a> plus two special characters: 谓 (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BD">GREEK SMALL LETTER NU</a>) and an 'o' superimposed with a back slash '\' (similar to Q). <blockquote> <font size=-1> Note: In these web pages, in order to avoid creating new characters and to facilitate MTL use on the standard word processors, the following steps have been taken: (1) <b>v</b> is used in place of the Greek letter nu (there is no 'vee' sound in the Taiwanese language) and, (2) either a font-reduced <b><font size="-2">Q</font></b> (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q), 酶 (<a href="http://taioaan.org/wiki/index.php?title=%C3%B8">LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE</a>), or 0 (DIGIT ZERO) is used in place of the backslashed o. </font> </blockquote> </span></p> </div> </div> <div id="supportingText"> <div id="footer"> <a href="http://taioaan.org" title="http://taioaan.org">taioaan.org</a> |  <a href="http://learntaiwanese.org/mtla" title="contact us">contact us</a> | copyright 2022 </div> </div> <div id="linkList"> <div id="linkList2"> <div id="lresources"> <h3 class="resources"><span></span></h3> <ul> </ul> </div> <div id="larchives"> <h3 class="archives"><span>MTL:</span></h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://learntaiwanese.org/Beginner's Guide to Taiwanese.html">Beginner's Guide</a> </li> <li><a href="http://learntaiwanese.org/english/mtl.html">Handbook</a> | <a href="http://learntaiwanese.org/chiwzheq/Engbuun.pdf">pdf</a> <li><a href="http://learntaiwanese.org/english/taiguo.com">Textbooks</a> <li><a href=http://taioaan.org/wiki/index.php?title=MTL_Toolbox>MTL Toolbox</a>  </ul> </div> <div id="lresources"> <h3 class="resources"><span>Resources:</span></h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://learntaiwanese.org/conversation">Practical Conversation</a><img src=http://taioaan.org/images/new.gif> <li><a href=http://taioaan.org/wiki/index.php?title=My_First_100_Words_in_Taiwanese> First 100 words</a> <li><a href="http://taioaan.org/wiki/index.php?title=460_Common_Taiwanese_Words">460 common words</a> <li><a href="http://learntaiwanese.org/imgak">Songs</a> <img src=http://taioaan.org/images/new.gif> <li><a href="http://learntaiwanese.org/gaxnguo">Proverb</a> | <a href="http://learntaiwanese.org/gaxnguo/kip">More </a> <img src=http://taioaan.org/images/new.gif> <li><a href="http://learntaiwanese.org/jokes">Jokes</a> | <a href="http://learntaiwanese.org/fables">Fables</a>  <li><a href="http://learntaiwanese.org/poems">Poems</a> | <a href="http://learntaiwanese.org/articles">Articles</a>  <li><a href="http://learntaiwanese.org/english/jixtiern">Dictionary</a> | <a href="http://learntaiwanese.org/MTLtoolbox.html">Pronunciation</a><img src=http://taioaan.org/images/new.gif> <li><a href="http://learntaiwanese.org/nlp/tone_sandhi.html">Tone Sandhi</a><img src=http://taioaan.org/images/new.gif> <li><a href=http://learntaiwanese.org/download/mtl_ins.html>MTL Inputmethod</a> | <a href=http://learntaiwanese.org/download/mtl_spell.html>Spell checker</a><img src=http://taioaan.org/images/new.gif> <li><a href=http://learntaiwanese.org/nlp>Natural Language Process</a><img src=http://taioaan.org/images/new.gif> </ul> </div> <div id="lresources"> <h3 class="resources"><span>Further Resources:</span></h3> <!iframe width="200" height="205" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MdRq-cel0nE" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> <ul> <li><a href="http://learntaiwanese.org/animation/">Animation</a> <li><a href="http://taioaan.org/wiki">Taioaan Wiki</a> </li> <li><a href="http://www.edutech.org.tw/">EDUTECH (Dr. Liim)</a></li> <li><a href=https://bitesizetaiwanese.com/>Bitesize Taiwanese</a> <li><a href=https://www.mnews.tw/anchorperson/f0d3a1c8-96bc-434b-b668-80a6197038d9>Mnews</a> - Taiwanese News <li><a href=https://www.mnews.tw/anchorperson/e3c29477-31f3-4c29-978c-935818cab30a>Do you understand Taiwanese?<?a> <li><a href="http://learntaiwanese.org/english/misc">More</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div>   <div id="extraDiv1"><span></span></div><div id="extraDiv2"><span></span></div><div id="extraDiv3"><span></span></div> <div id="extraDiv4"><span></span></div><div id="extraDiv5"><span></span></div><div id="extraDiv6"><span></span></div> </body></html>

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