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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">It could possibly be constructed as a combination of 31BA and 3127, but the pronunciation of the first in Zhuyin fuhao is far from that in Black Miao, and it would be reading the
</span>± sign as two. In the text it frequently occurs as one separate syllable.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> New bopomofo sign used for Black Miao<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are here trying to catalog a set of bible parts in Chinese dialects and minority languages. Some of these use the Pollard script, some the Bopomofo/Zhuyin fuhao, and some the Wang Zhao script.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Trying to enter the titles for Mark and Matthew in Black Miao, that use the Zhuyin fuhao script, I could not find the following character: looks like ±, pronounced (apparently) yi (beginning of
<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">音</span>). See attachment.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have not looked at the text itself, to see whether there are other unknown signs; I thought it better to ask first, whether anyone has researched Zhuyin fuhao as used for Black Miao. (Both publications date from 1928.) It is not listed
in <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hant/%E6%B3%A8%E9%9F%B3%E5%AD%97%E6%AF%8D%E8%8B%97%E6%96%87">
https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hant/%E6%B3%A8%E9%9F%B3%E5%AD%97%E6%AF%8D%E8%8B%97%E6%96%87</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Then up to the 4 Wang Zhao titles…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Martin Heijdra, Ph.D.
</span></b><b><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:DengXian;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">何義壯</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Princeton University Library<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> 33 Frist Campus Center, Room 317<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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