New-French Latinisation

The New-French Latinisation of the Cantonese Language (Chinese: 新法蘭西粵語拼音方案, French: Système Nouvelle-France de la Latinisation de la Langue Cantonaise) is a romanisation system for Cantonese developed by the New-French Linguistic Society, a group of Cantonese students from Simon Fraser University, Canada. The students' purposes were corresponding the broad IPA, transcribing different dialects/accents of modern Cantonese, correcting the "lazy pronunciations" and Cantonese teaching. Thus the system tried to avoid alphabets with different pronunciations in different languages. However, since this system is publicised later than other romanisation systems, and computerised info-processing was sacrificed for accuracy, the system is not yet widely used.

Consonants

**Table of Consonants**
Consonants	b	p	m	f	d	t	n	l	g	k	ng	h	gw	kw	w	dz	ts	s	y
IPA	[p]	[pʰ]	[m]	[f]	[t]	[tʰ]	[n]	[l]	[k]	[kʰ]	[ŋ]	[h]	[kʷ]	[kʷʰ]	[w]	[ts]	[tsʰ]	[s]	[j]
Example-Character	巴	怕	媽	花	打	他	那	啦	家	卡	牙	蝦	瓜	誇	蛙	渣	叉	沙	也
Orthography	ba	pa	ma	fa	da	ta	na	la	ga	ka	nga	ha	gwa	kwa	wa	dza	tsa	sa	ya

The Rhymes

The Vowels

**Vowels**
Vowel	a	ä	e	ë	i	o	ö	u	ü	ø	œ
IPA	[a]	[ɐ]	[ɛ]	[e]	[i]	[ɔ]	[o]	[u]	[y]	[œ]	[u]
Example-Character	巴	畢	些	釋	之	河	豪	胡	雨	靴	律
Orthography	ba	bät	se	sëk	dzi	ho	höu	wu	yü	hø	lœt

The Endings

**Endings**
Fin	-p	-t	-k	-m	-n	-ng	-i	-u	-ü
IPA	[p ̚]	[t ̚]	[k ̚]	[m]	[n]	[ŋ]	[i]	[u]	[y]
Example-Character	濕	失	塞	心	新	生	西	收	需
Orthography	säp	sät	säk	säm	sän	säng	säi	säu	sœü

Attention: final [p ̚] [t ̚] [k ̚] they have no audible release.

Tones

The New-French Latinisation indicate the tone values directly, which is different from other romanisation systems.

**Tones**
Tone	High level/High falling	Medium rising	Medium level	Low level	Low rising	Medium low level	High level entering	Medium rising entering	Medium level entering	Medium low level entering
Tone Value	55/53	35	33	21/11	13	22	5	35	3	2
Example-Character	分	粉	訓	焚	奮	份	忽	月	發	佛
Orthography	fän5	fän35	fän3	fän1	fän13	fän2	fät5	yüt35	fat3	fät2

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