Tâi-uân lô-má-jī orthography

In this article, we describe the orthography of “Tâi-uân lô-má-jī”. Three variants will be included.

Alphabet

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	Majuscule forms (also called uppercase or capital letters)
o͘/ⁿ	A	Aᴺ Aⁿ	B	E	Eᴺ Eⁿ	G	H	I	Iᴺ Iⁿ	J	K	KH Kh	L	M	N	NG Ng	O	O͘	Oᴺ Oⁿ	P	PH Ph	S	T	TH Th	TS Ts	TSH Tsh	U	Uᴺ Uⁿ	ER Er	IR Ir	EE Ee
oo/nn	A	ANN Ann	B	E	ENN Enn	G	H	I	INN Inn	J	K	KH Kh	L	M	N	NG Ng	O	OO	ONN Onn	P	PH/Ph	S	T	TH Th	TS Ts	TSH Tsh	U	UNN Unn
	Minuscule forms (also called lowercase or small letters)
o͘/ⁿ	a	aⁿ	b	e	eⁿ	g	h	i	iⁿ	j	k	kh	l	m	n	ng	o	o͘	oⁿ	p	ph	s	t	th	ts	tsh	u	uⁿ	er	ir	ee
oo/nn	a	ann	b	e	enn	g	h	i	inn	j	k	kh	l	m	n	ng	o	oo	onn	p	ph	s	t	th	ts	tsh	u	unn

Majuscule forms (also called uppercase or capital letters)
A	B	CH/Ch	CHH/Chh	E	G	H	I	J	K	KH/Kh	L	M	N	ᴺ	NG/Ng	O	O͘	P	PH/Ph	S	T	TH/Th	U	-
Minuscule forms (also called lowercase or small letters)
a	b	ch	chh	e	g	h	i	j	k	kh	l	m	n	ⁿ	ng	o	o͘	p	ph	s	t	th	u	-
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Note:

Hyphen is included as one of the alphabet.

Multigraphs are treated as sequences with regard to the rules of capitalization:

：er發音為[ǝ] ir發音為[ɨ] ee發音為[ԑ] ere

Taiwanese makes use of five diacritics: the acute accent, grave, circumflex accent, macron, vertical line above.

	Majuscule forms (also called uppercase or capital letters)								Minuscule forms (also called lowercase or small letters)
	A	E	I	O	O͘	U	M	NG	a	e	i	o	o͘	u	m	ng
acute	Á	É	Í	Ó	Ó͘	Ú	Ḿ	ŃG	á	é	í	ó	ó͘	ú	ḿ	ńg
grave	À	È	Ì	Ò	Ò͘	Ù	M̀	ǸG	á	é	í	ó	ó͘	ú	ḿ	ńg
circumflex	Â	Ê	Î	Ô	Ô͘	Û	M̂	N̂G	â	ê	î	ô	ô͘	û	m̂	n̂g
caron	Ǎ	Ě	Ǐ	Ǒ	Ǒ͘	Ǔ	M̌	ŇG	ǎ	ě	ǐ	ǒ	ǒ͘	ǔ	m̌	ňg
macron	Ā	Ē	Ī	Ō	Ō͘	Ū	M̄	N̄G	ā	ē	ī	ō	ō͘	ū	m̄	n̄g
vertical line above	A̍	E̍	I̍	O̍	O̍͘	U̍	M̍	N̍G	a̍	e̍	i̍	o̍	o̍͘	u̍	m̍	n̍g
double accute	A̋	E̋	I̋	Ő	Ő͘	I̋	M̋	N̋G	a̋	e̋	i̋	ő	ő͘	ű	m̋	n̋g

They are used to denote the tone as follows:

blah	p	ph	b	m	t	th	n	l	k	kh	g	ng	h	ts	tsh	s	j
Word-Initial (IPA)	[p]	[pʰ]	[b]	[m]	[t]	[tʰ]	[n]	[l]	[k]	[kʰ]	[g]	[ŋ]	[h]	[ʨ]	[ʦ]	[s]	[ʣ]