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Peer reviewedDeFrancis, John – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1990
Reviews the history and development of the Pinyin grapheme system for the transcription of Chinese, and contrasts Pinyin graphemes with those of several other systems for Chinese. It is argued that Pinyin should be accepted as the standard system for Chinese transcription. (JL)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Chinese, Language Planning, Language Standardization
