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. ======== (created 15 July 2005) []