Hainanese Transliteration Scheme

The Hainanese Transliteration Scheme (Chinese: 海南かいなん話ばなし拼音方案ほうあん) refers to a romanization scheme published by the Guangdong Provincial Education Department in September 1960 as one of four systems collectively referred to as Guangdong Romanization. The scheme describes the Wenchang dialect spoken in Wenchang, Hainan which is considered to be the prestige dialect of Hainanese. At the time of the scheme's creation, Hainan was part of Guangdong, until it was separated to form its own province in 1988. This system utilises the Latin alphabet with superscript numbers to represent tone.

System

Letters

This system uses the Latin alphabet, excluding the letters ⟨c⟩, ⟨f⟩, ⟨j⟩, ⟨k⟩, ⟨q⟩, ⟨r⟩, ⟨t⟩, ⟨w⟩ and ⟨x⟩.

Initials

Letter	Example	IPA
b	波なみ	[ʔb]/[ɓ]
p	坡	[pʰ]/[ɸ]
m	摩ま	[m]
v	无	[v]/[b]
d	装そう	[t]
dd	刀かたな	[ʔd]/[ɗ]
n	挪	[n]
l	罗	[l]
g	哥	[k]
ng	俄にわか	[ŋ]
h	可か	[x]
hh	号ごう	[h]
z	支ささえ	[ts]
s	妻つま	[s]
y	余よ	[z]

Finals

	i [i] 医い	u [u] 呜
a [a] 亚	ia [ia] 也	ua [ua] 换
o [o] 哦	io [iɔ] 喲
e [ɛ] 下した		ue [ue] 话
ai [ai] 哀あい		uai [uai] 坏
oi [ɔi] 鞋		ui [ui] 貴とうと
ao [au] 凹	iao [iau] 妖
ou [ɔu] 歐おう	iu [iu] 柚ゆず
am [am] 暗くら	iam [iam] 厌
	im [im] 音おと
an [an] 安やす		uan [uan] 弯
	in [in] 烟けむり	un [un] 温あつし
ang [aŋ] 红	iang [iaŋ] 央ひさし	uang [uaŋ] 汪ひろし
eng [eŋ] 英えい
ong [ɔŋ] 翁おう	iong [iɔŋ] (匈)
ab [ap] 盒	iab [iap] (协)
	ib [ip] 邑
ad [at] 遏		uad [uat] 挖
	id [it] 乙おつ	ud [ut] 核かく
ag [ak] (鹤)	iag [iak] (菊きく)	uag [uak] (廓くるわ)
eg [ek] 益えき
og [ok] 喔	iog [iok] 育いく

Tones

Tone number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Example	诗 di¹	时 di²	死し di³	四よん di⁴	是これ di⁵	视 di⁶	失しつ did⁷	实 did⁸

References

Liang, Yougang 梁はり猷刚 (1988). Hǎinán yīn zìdiǎn: Pǔtōnghuà duìzhào 海南かいなん音おん字典じてん: 普通ふつう话对照あきら (in Chinese). Guangdong renmin chubanshe. pp. 455–456. ISBN 7-218-00195-5.