From: William J Poser (wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2007 - 00:14:46 CST
In writing Cantonese the basic principle is that if the
morpheme is cognate to its Mandarin counterpart it will
be written with the same character but if it is not cognate
a distinct character will be used. For example, the 1st
person pronouns Cantonese ngo, Mandarin wo, and the 2nd
person pronouns, Cantonese le, Mandarin ni, are cognate and
are written with the same characters, but the third person
pronouns, Cantonese keoi, mandarin ta, are not cognate
so keoi is written with a "non-standard" character (U+4F62).
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