Yale Romanization

:For other uses of Yale, see Yale (disambiguation).

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The Yale Romanizations are four systems created during World War II for use by United States military personnel. They romanize the four East Asian languages of Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean. The four Romanizations, however, are unrelated in the sense that the same letter from one Romanization may not represent the same sound in another.

Related Topics:
World War II - United States - Military personnel - Romanize - East Asia - Mandarin - Cantonese - Japanese - Korean

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They were once used in the US for teaching these Asian languages to civilian students, but are now mostly obscure and only sometimes used by academic linguists. Teaching Mandarin, for example, virtually always employs Hanyu Pinyin. McCune-Reischauer has dominated the Korean Romanization field for several decades.

Related Topics:
Linguist - Hanyu Pinyin - McCune-Reischauer - Korean Romanization

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