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Consider replacing tone numbers 7, 8, 9 in Yale with 1, 3, 6 #1

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@AlienKevin

As defined in various sources, the Yale romanization uses numbers 1-6 exclusively. Number 1, 3, and 6 are used for 上陰入, 下陰入, and 陽入. Please consider replacing tone numbers 7, 8, 9 in Yale with 1, 3, 6. Thanks for developing this awesome lookup table.

Wikipedia entry on 耶魯拼音 (Retrieve Jun 9, 2022)

編號 聲調 標調方法
1 陰平(高平)、陰入
1 陰平(高降)
2 陰上
3 陰去、中入 si
4 陽平 sìh
5 陽上 síh
6 陽去、陽入 sih

Chapter on Cantonese Romanizaton in Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language

"The peculiarity as a result of using tone letter h causes some later versions to discard it altogether and replace the diacritics with tone number: /55/ (or /53/, /5/), /25/, /33/ (or /3/), /21/, /23/, and /22/ (or /2/) are numbered from 1 to 6. In this ‘simplified’ version, yuht yúh and gwóng dūng wá are given as yut6 yu5 and gwong2 dung1 wa2" (emphasis mine).

粵拼與其他粵語拼音方案對照表 on jyutping.org

調類 調值 例字 IPA 粵拼 廣拼 教院 耶魯 劉錫祥
陰平 53 / 55 ˥˧ / ˥ 1 1 1 à / ā / 1 1 / 1°
陰上 35 ˧˥ 2 2 2 á / 2 2
陰去 33 ˧ 3 3 3 a / 3 3
陽平 21 ˨˩ 4 4 4 àh / 4 4
陽上 13 ˩˧ 5 5 5 áh / 5 5
陽去 22 ˨ 6 6 6 ah / 6 6
上陰入 5 ˥ 1 1 7 / 1 āt / 1 1
下陰入 3 ˧ 3 3 8 / 3 at / 3 3
陽入 2 ˨ 6 6 9 / 6 aht / 6 6

耶魯拼音一般用聲調符號嚟標調,並且喺陽聲調嘅元音後邊加 h。喺唔方便用聲調符號嗰陣,亦會使用數字標調
粵語廣州話嘅陰平調有 53 同 55 兩種調值,又分別叫「上陰平」同「下陰平」。現代粵語中呢兩種調值一般爲自由變體,冇特別區分,所以粵拼、廣拼、教院方案都用調號 1 代表陰平調;而耶魯、劉錫祥就有區分呢兩種調值。對於三個入聲調,教院方案可用 7、8、9 標,亦可用 1、3、6 標。

Solution

I wrote three simple regular expressions in JavaScript style to replace the tone numbers in pingyambiu.

  1. Replace ^([a-z]+)7\t with $11\t
  2. Replace ^([a-z]+)8\t with $13\t
  3. Replace ^([a-z]+)9\t with $16\t

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