John Cowan wrote:
>Patrick Andries scripsit:
>
>>Let's assume I want to "transliterate" a large Wade-Giles database into
>>pinyin. It this a purely algorithmic process? For all nouns ? Common and
>>proper (cf. Chiang Kai-Shek vs Jiang Jeshi )? Even for "dialectal" words?
>>
>
>"Chiang Kai-Shek" isn't Wade-Giles; it isn't even Mandarin.
>
I did mention "dialectal" forms (I believe final -k does no longer occur
in Mandarin), I just wondered whether I would find such nouns (proper or
common) in dictionary edited in Taiwan. I asked because I could see no
algorithmic way of converting this name using traditional Wade to Pinyin
tables.
Incidentally, if this is not Wade-Giles applied to a "dialectal"
pronunciation, what is it? Geniously interested.
Patrick Andries
PS : Thank you for the National Library of Congress pointer.
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