Map of languages spoken in China https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/741048329845542912 ✲ For beginners of 𝘑𝘺𝘶𝘵𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨, READ EVERY SINGLE LETTER METICULOUSLY, REGARD THEM AS INDIVIDUALS AT ANY TIME, AND ERASE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF ENGLISH WORDS AND ROMANISED CANTONESE PROPER NAMES UNLESS ILLUSTRATED AS FOLLOWS. ✲ To monoliterates and monoglots: LETTERS ARE READ DIFFERENTLY ACROSS SCRIPTS, AND SCRIPTS DO HAVE LETTERS ALIKE; A LETTER HAS ITS CONTEXT UPON HUMANS’ DISCERNMENT, A LETTER HAS NO CONTEXT UPON HUMANS’ DISCERNMENT; TRANSIENCE COMPLICATES, COMPLICATION TRANSITS: 𝓮𝓰 НК СОР — COP. ┅󠄘󠄿󠄾󠄷󠄻󠄿󠄾󠄷󠄵󠅂┅󠄚󠄿󠄾󠄱󠅄󠄸󠄱󠄾┅󠄜󠄱󠄽┅󠄼󠄱󠄽󠄄┅󠄽󠄹󠄾󠄷󠄄┅󠄸󠄿󠄾󠄆┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 in 𝘑𝘺𝘶𝘵𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 [⎽ɥyˑt̚ ‒pheŋ] /⎽jyːt ‒pheŋ/ jyut6 ping3 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ ✱ ⟨j⟩: ALWAYS as in 𝙮𝘦𝘴, precisely as German 𝙟𝘢 and IPA [j]. ✱ ⟨yu⟩: like 𝙮𝙤𝙪, 𝘧𝙚𝙬, as in French 𝘵𝙪, or IPA [y]. ⟨y⟩ shall NEVER be regarded as a separate letter a...
