LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM

Name of requester          : Karen Broome
E-mail address of requester: karen_broome&spe.sony.com
Tag to be registered       : zh-cmn-Hant
English name of language   : Mandarin Chinese (Traditional)
Native name of language (transcribed into ASCII): Putonghua or Guoyu

Reference to published description of the language (book or article):

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1981. Mandarin Chinese: 
A Functional Reference Grammar. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Wang, Fred Fangyu. 1967. Mandarin Chinese Dictionary: 
Chinese-English. Seton Hall: Seton Hall University Press.

Fenn, Henry Courtenay. 1967. Speak Mandarin: A Beginning Text in Spoken 
Chinese. 3 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Dow, Francis D. M. 1972. An Outline of Mandarin Phonetics. 2 vols. 
Canberra: Australian National University Press.

Any other relevant information:

This is intended to describe Mandarin Chinese when written in traditional  
Chinese orthography. This tag is requested because zh-Hant does not 
explicitly specify Mandarin Chinese.

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(created 15 July 2005)

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