###### tags: `Common Voice`,`CC0-Corpus`

# 台語 Common Voice 計畫共筆
Shared-notes of Taiwanese in Common Voice planning

## Language Code: nan-tw

Specific for "Minnan in Taiwan" (Taiwanese)

- ISO 639-3 defined [nan](https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/nan) as Minnan (Hokkien), the code is shared by Taiwanese Hokkien, Hokkien in Southeastern China and Hokkien in Southeastern Asia.
- Due to words differences, political sensitive sentences (for China) and different Latin/phenotic system of Taiwan to China, we suggested add tw to nan to specify the locale is for Taiwanese.

## 網站介面 UI translation on Pontoon

### options
1. *(prefer)* Translate UI into Taiwanese
- language code: nan-tw
- Han character (漢字) with Tâi-lô (TL, 台羅) phenotic system
- Fork zh-tw into nan-tw at the beginning, Taiwanese community will translate Taiwan Mandarin into Taiwanese one by one
- The translation progress don't need to be a blocker.
2. Use zh-tw UI directly without new ponton locale
- It won't be problem for website user, because more than 99% of the potential recorder should be able to read Chinese
- (Irvin) I believe there won't be any user that can only read Taiwanese
- People from Taiwanese language community present strongly disagree with this option due to it's implicit that Taiwanese is like sub-language of Taiwan Mandarin.

## 句庫 Text Corpus

### Writing system options
1. All Han characters
- Follow the MOE (Ministry of Education) standard
2. All Latin alphabet (Lô-má-jī)
- Problems: When multiple accents available, which should be spelled?
- Should we list all the accents as different sentences and ask people to record according to the spelling?
- No, we shouldn't ask people to pronounciate in non-native accents.
3. *(prefer)* Mainly Han chars, supplemented by Lô-má-jī
- Lô-má-jī is only used when the word
- is not written in MOE dictionary
- is ambiguous in pronunciation only by Han characters
- has no corresponding Han characters
- cannot be displayed on mobile or older devices (...tbd)
- has a variety of readings and must be marked

### examples
<!-- some Taiwanese proverbs-->
- 上愛食番仔番薯
- 嫁著做田翁，無法梳頭鬃
- 人肉鹹鹹，袂食得
- 媽祖宮起毋著面，痟的出袂盡
- 一千銀，毋值四兩
- 七月頓頓飽，八月攏無巧（khá）
- 三个錢尪仔，栽四个錢喙鬚
- 了錢生理無人做，刣頭生理有人做
- 五支指頭仔咬起來逐支嘛疼
- 二更更，三暝暝
- 四算錢，五燒香，六拜年
- 七七四十九（sù/sìr-si̍p-kiú）
- 問娘（mn̄g/muī）何月（hô gue̍h/ge̍h/ge̍rh）有（iú）
- 除卻（tû/tîr/tî-khioh）母（bó）生年（senn/sinn-nî）
- 再添（tsài thiam）一十九（it-si̍p-kiú）
- 交陪醫生腹肚做藥櫥，交陪牛販仔駛瘦牛
- 人無橫財袂富，馬無野草袂肥
- 偷食袂瞞得喙齒，討翁袂瞞得鄉里
- 棚頂做甲流汗，棚跤嫌甲流瀾
- 兄弟若手足，某囝若衫褲
- 勸人𬦰（peh）上樹，樓梯夯咧走
- 南斗註生，北斗註死
- 呂洞賓葫蘆內的藥，醫別人無醫家己
- 和好人行，有布通經；和歹人行，有囝通生
- 善的掠來縛，惡的放伊去
- 你這款病，是腹肚內有應聲蟲咧作怪
- 這馬症頭已經誠嚴重矣
- 若閣拖落去毋趕緊共治予好，早慢會穢著你的某囝
- 你提轉去了後，就一項一項共伊讀出來
- 若拄著應聲蟲毋敢應的，你就用彼帖藥仔來治伊
- 我散赤閣頇顢，萬項代誌都袂曉
- 只會當靠這來趁食過日
- 論真講，想欲對付伊是真簡單
- 沓沓仔觀察伊的反應，就知影伊有啥物臭空矣