Church Romanization

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Church Romanization is a Latin-based orthographic system historically used by Christian missionaries to write Southern Min (especially Taiwanese Hokkien) and related Chinese dialects.

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Label Occurrences
Church Romanization canonical 4

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin-based script
romanization system
associatedWith Bible societies
Christian missions in East Asia
Protestant missionaries
basedOn Latin orthographic conventions
developedBy Christian missionaries
domain Sinology
linguistics
religion
hasAlternativeUse linguistic description of Southern Min
hasFeature representation of Southern Min phonology
tone marking
use of diacritics
hasWritingDirection left-to-right
historicallyUsedIn Amoy
Fujian
Taiwan
Xiamen
historicalPeriod 19th century
20th century
influencedBy missionary linguistic practice
languageFamilyTarget Sinitic languages
linked to: Chinese language
languageVarietyTarget Southern Min dialect group
orthographicType phonemic orthography
primaryPurpose Bible translation
evangelization
religious literature
region East Asia
Southeast China
linked to: southern China

Taiwan Strait area
linked to: Taiwan Strait
represents consonant inventory of Southern Min
tones of Southern Min
vowel inventory of Southern Min
scriptType alphabetic
usedAlongside Chinese characters
usedBy Christian missionaries in Southern Min–speaking regions
usedFor catechisms
hymnals
religious education
sermons
translation of Christian texts into Southern Min
usesScript Latin alphabet
writingSystemFor Hokkien
Southern Min
Taiwanese Hokkien
related Chinese dialects

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pe̍h-ōe-jī hasAlternativeName Church Romanization
Amoy Hokkien usesRomanization Church Romanization
POJ hasVariant Church Romanization
Pe̍h-oē-jī hasAlternativeName Church Romanization