Sidney Lau romanisation

Chinese romanisation
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Wenzhounese Wenzhounese romanisation
Yue
Cantonese Jyutping Yale romanisation Guangdong Romanisation Hong Kong Government Macau Government Meyer–Wempe Sidney Lau S. L. Wong (phonetic symbols) S. L. Wong (romanisation) Cantonese Pinyin Standard Romanisation Barnett–Chao Comparison chart
Southern Min
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Hakka
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Gan
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By place Romanisation in Hong Kong Romanisation in Singapore Romanisation in Taiwan

Sidney Lau is a system of romanisation for Cantonese, developed in the 1970s by Sidney Lau for teaching Cantonese to Hong Government expatriates. It is based on the Hong Kong Government's Standard Romanisation which was the result of the work of James D Ball and Ernst J Eitel about a century earlier.

Innovation

Lau's singular creative step was to indicate tonality with superscript numbers so as to do away with diacritics (with just one exception) entirely. His system was a plain attempt at simplification which proved popular with western learners of Cantonese as a second language and is the system of romanisation adopted by the University of Hong Kong.^[1]

Initials

b [p]	p [pʰ]	m [m]	f [f]
d [t]	t [tʰ]	n [n]		l [l]
g [k]	k [kʰ]	ng [ŋ]	h [h]
gw [kw]	kw [kʰw]			w [w]
j [ts]	ch [tsʰ]		s [s]	y [j]

Finals

a [aː]	aai [aːi]	aau [aːu]	aam [aːm]	aan [aːn]	aang [aːŋ]	aap [aːp]	aat [aːt]	aak [aːk]
	ai [ɐi]	au [ɐu]	am [ɐm]	an [ɐn]	ang [ɐŋ]	ap [ɐp]	at [ɐt]	ak [ɐk]
e [ɛː]	ei [ei]				eng [ɛːŋ]			ek [ɛːk]
i [iː]		iu [iːu]	im [iːm]	in [iːn]	ing [ɪŋ]	ip [iːp]	it [iːt]	ik [ɪk]
oh [ɔː]	oi [ɔːi]	o [ou]		on [ɔːn]	ong [ɔːŋ]		ot [ɔːt]	ok [ɔːk]
oo [uː]	ooi [uːi]			oon [uːn]	ung [ʊŋ]		oot [uːt]	uk [ʊk]
euh [œː]	ui [ɵy]			un [ɵn]	eung [œːŋ]		ut [ɵt]	euk [œːk]
ue [yː]				uen [yːn]			uet [yːt]

Tones

Seven tones are indicated using superscripted numbers.

Tone description	Marking
high falling 1	$a^{1}$
middle rising 2	$a^{2}$
middle level 3	$a^{3}$
high level 1⁰	$a^{1^{0}}$
low falling 4	$a^{4}$
low rising 5	$a^{5}$
low level 6	$a^{6}$

References

↑ Kataoka, Shin; Lee, Cream (2008). "A System without a System: Cantonese Romanization Used in Hong Kong Place and Personal Names". Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics, vol. 11. Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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