This paper is a companion piece to‘
Towards a Practical Orthography for the Shanghai Dialect’which appeared in the 1981 issue of
Chugoku Gogaku: Bulletin of the Chinese Linguistic Society of Japan. In addition to presenting additional data to test the workability of the orthography for Shanghai, the system originally proposed is expanded here to take full account of the various subdialects of Shanghai as reported in the literature (eg. Shen 1981 b). Several criteria are set forth as basic to a workable pedagogical script for any language; these criteria have served as guidelines for the development of the Shanghai orthography proposed in these two papers. A model of the processes at work within the Shanghai syllable is also presented; the analysis of these processes has in part determined the final shape of the proposed orthography.
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