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Toward a Cross-Lingual Romanization Ecosystem for Sinitic Languages: A Paired Mandarin-Cantonese Case Study

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 29, 2026 · UTC

This paper proposes the Sinitic Romanization Ecosystem, a cross-lingual Sinitic romanization design framework with supporting digital infrastructure and a community-driven open-source workflow. The design framework addresses the lack of systematic cross-lingual romanization alignment among Sinitic languages through four design principles: phonetic correspondence for representing similar sounds with similar romanized symbols, historical-phonological correspondence for aligning cognate romanization strings, one-phoneme-one-symbol, and basic Latin-letter use, with a balancing consideration recogn

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arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · 2026-08-29T09:35:14.000Z

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