Thank you very much!

Мин бу мөһим эшне тулысынча хуплыйм. Дөньяда латин алфавитын кулланучы күп татарлар бар. Рәсәйдә дә алар бик күп. Бердәнбер проблема шунда ки, кайбер кешеләр латин алфавитында язылган татар җөмләләрне башка телләргә тәрҗемә итүдә кыенлыклар кичерәләр. Алман DeepL бу яктан бик яхшы! Ул латин хәрефләре белән язылган татар җөмләләрне башка телләргә әйбәт тәрҗемә итә.

Min bu möhim eşne tulısınça xuplıym. Dönyada latin alfavitın qullanuçı küp tatarlar bar. Räsäydä dä alar bik küp. Berdänber problema şunda ki, qayber keşelär latin alfavitında yazılğan tatar cömlälärne başqa tellärgä tärcemä itüdä qıyınlıqlar kiçerälär. Alman DeepL bu yaqtan bik yaxşı! Ul latin xärefläre belän yazılğan tatar cömlälärne başqa tellärgä äybät tärcemä itä.

I fully support this important work. There are many Tatars in the world who use the Latin alphabet. There are also a lot of them in Russia. The only problem is that some people have difficulty translating Tatar sentences written in the Latin alphabet into other languages. The German DeepL is very good at this! It translates Tatar sentences written in Latin letters into other languages.

Thanks for letting me know! I just fixed that issue.

I wonder if we currently have any corpus maintainers that are maintaining dead languages tho.

Changing flags works fine for me. Can you elaborate what prevents you from changing flags?

The main drawback of mixing both writing systems is that it is difficult to search for words. You need to make two searches, one for each script, in order to find all potential sentences. And you need to know how to write the word in both scripts.

The Minnan Wikipedia was founded in 2004, at a time when there was no unified standard for writing Minnan in Chinese characters — the situation was fairly fragmented, with no academic consensus. Pe̍h-ōe-jī, developed by Western missionaries, offered a consistent and well-documented alternative, which is likely the main reason the Hokkien Wikipedia adopted it as its sole writing system.

The drawback, however, is significant: the vast majority of Minnan speakers have never learned POJ, and writing in Chinese characters has been the traditional practice for centuries.

In 2009, Taiwan's Ministry of Education published an official recommended character set for Taiwanese Minnan, which remains in use by government institutions today. That said, it has attracted considerable debate in academic circles, and many are reluctant to adopt it. This is partly because Minnan speakers are not exclusively Taiwanese — speakers in other regions have no particular reason to accept a Taiwan-specific standard — and even within Taiwan itself, the standard remains contested.

There have been proposals to add Chinese-character articles to the Minnan Wikipedia, but nothing has come of them, largely for the reasons above.

As for how mixed writing works in practice: most core Minnan vocabulary is of Sinitic origin, and for these words the character spellings are generally uncontroversial. The disputed cases — function words, sentence-final particles, and loanwords — are where some writers switch to POJ.

The proportion varies considerably and is hard to generalize: a given sentence might consist almost entirely of Sinitic vocabulary, or it might be dominated by particles and loanwords, in which case the romanized portion would be much larger.

https://tatoeba.org/zh-tw/sente...f_user/tsunhua

BTW, 472 of 482 Minnan sentences are by tsunhua. And it seems that they add one sentence in Chinese characters and then add the same sentence in POJ for every sentence they add.