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pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin (pīnyīn), officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. Hanyu literally means —that is, the Chinese language—while pinyin literally means 'spelled sounds'. Pinyin is the official romanization system used in China, and Singapore, and by the United Nations. Its use has become common when transliterating Standard Chinese mostly regardless of region, though it is less ubiquitous in Taiwan. It is used to teach Standard Chinese, normally written with Chinese characters, to students in mainland China and Singapore
Bopomofo
Bopomofo, also called Zhuyin Fuhao ( ; ), or simply Zhuyin, is a transliteration system for Standard Chinese and other Sinitic languages. It is the principal method of teaching Mandarin pronunciation in Taiwan. It consists of 37 characters and five tone marks, which together can transcribe all possible sounds in Mandarin Chinese.
phonetic transcription
visual representation of speech sounds
Shavian alphabet
phonetic alphabet proposed for English spelling
Deseret alphabet
19th-century phonetic writing system devised by the LDS Church
Kirshenbaum
system used for represent the International Phonetic Alphabet in ASCII format
Transcription of Australian Aboriginal languages
orthography of the Aboriginal Languages native to Australia
English Phonotypic Alphabet
phonetic alphabet developed by Isaac Pitman and Alexander John Ellis
Uralic Phonetic Alphabet
phonetic transcription system for Uralic languages
African reference alphabet
set of 60 letters (in the latter edition), used for writing various African languages; initially proposed in 1978 and revised in 1982
Swedish Dialect Alphabet
narrow phonetic transcription of Swedish dialects
Visible Speech
featural phonetic representation script
Americanist phonetic notation
system of phonetic notation originally developed for the phonetic and phonemic transcription of indigenous languages of the Americas
General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages
Totality of orthographic rules for the languages ​​of Cameroon
Standard Alphabet by Lepsius
transcription system developed by Lepsius for Egyptian hieroglyphs and other African and Asian languages
Teuthonista
Teuthonista is a phonetic transcription system used predominantly for the transcription of (High) German dialects. It is very similar to other Central European transcription systems from the early 20th century. The base characters are mostly based on the Latin alphabet, which can be modified by various diacritics.
Romanized Popular Alphabet
romanization system for Hmong languages
Dania
phonetic transcription
Initial Teaching Alphabet
aid for teaching English reading
Quikscript
right|thumb|The front page of the Quikscript manual. The Quikscript text reads, "This is the way to do it." Quikscript (also known as the Read Alphabet and Second Shaw) is a constructed alphabet intended to replace traditional English orthography. It is a revised version of the Shavian alphabet, designed to be written more quickly by hand than its predecessor and to be more universal.
Unifon
thumb|300px|right|class=skin-invert-image|The beginning of the Lord's Prayer, rendered in modern Unifon (two fonts), and in standard English orthography
Romic alphabet
phonetic alphabet proposed by Henry Sweet
General Chinese
romanisation of Chinese table
Norvegia
Latin-based phonetic alphabet for the transcription of Norwegian languages and dialects