Bbánlám Uē Pìngyīm Hōng'ànThe two apostrophes here are not needed for native speakers (since *Hōngg and *Hōn cannot be a valid syllable in Hokkien), but is used within the official orthography. It would be written as Bbánlám Ōe Pìngyīm Hōngàn in practice. (), Bbánlám pìngyīm, Minnan pinyin or simply pingyim, is a romanization system for Hokkien Southern Min, in particular the Amoy (Xiamen) version of this language.Versions for the Quanzhou and Zhangzhou dialects are also devised, but not popular. This romanization system was devised at Xiamen University and first published in the 1982 普通話閩南方言詞典 (Mandarin-Hokkien Dictionary).
Names Various names are used such as Bbínpīn Hōngàn (), BbínPīn or BP (). It is commonly known as Pumindian () in Taiwan, named after the Mandarin-Southern Min Dictionary () where the system is used, but the formal Chinese name is Southern Min Language Spelling System ().
Alphabet The BP alphabet adopts the Latin alphabet of 20 letters, 5 digraphs and 5 diacritics to express the basic sounds of the Min Nan language:
bp capital letterABBbCDEGGgHIKLMNNgOOoPSTUWYZZzbp lower caseabbbcdeggghiklmnngooopstuwyzzz
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External links Southern Min Dialect Spelling System