Simple question about POJ

jilang · Post by **jilang** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 5:44 am

Hi
I have some simple questions about Peh Oe Ji (POJ)

What tone mark/symbol is used for the 1st tone and what are two common words that use it (I'm not sure what is distinctive about it)?

What tone mark/symbol is used for the 4th tone?

What tone mark is used for the 8th tone and what is distinctive about it?

Thanks

ong · Post by **ong** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 12:47 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%CC%8Dh-%C5%8De-j%C4%AB

jilang · Post by **jilang** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:11 am

Thanks but that's the site I'm using as my main reference but some of the tones don't have marks and I don't know how to write them without numbers and also 4 and 8 sound the same.

ong · Post by **ong** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:53 am

You have to use some software to type .

ong · Post by **ong** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:29 am

www.sinology.info/sound_system_investigation.pdf
the author view of POJ eng is ierng came from 罗常培 1931's book；

ong · Post by **ong** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 12:41 pm

I can't see what is the problem of first and fourth tone are without any tone mark.

Andrew · Post by **Andrew** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 12:43 pm

In POJ the first and fourth tones are written without tone marks. The eighth tone uses the ' mark.

The fourth and eighth tones are easy to tell because the words end with -h -p -t or -k. In standard Amoy Hokkien, 4th is low and 8th is high.

jilang · Post by **jilang** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:27 am

Thanks you two that helped!