罗马字官话圣经译本的拼写系统:《新约全书》和《约翰福音书》拼写比较

The Orthography Systems in Romanized Chinese Bibles: Spelling Comparison of the New Testament(新约全书) and the Gospel of John(约翰福音全书)

《新约全书》和《约翰福音书》反映的是不同的拼写形式,前者所采用的是内地会系统,而后者采用的则是威妥玛系统。两书的声母、韵母和声调在拼写上有差异,说明它们源自于不同的拼写系统,如《新约全书》只有一套舌尖前声母ts、ts‘、s;而《约翰福音书》多出一套舌尖前声母tz、tz‘、ss。-h在内地会系统是入声标记;在威妥玛系统却是音值标记。内地会系统有5个调位;而威妥玛系统只有4个调位,入声派入其余四声。

The orthographies of the New Testament（新约全书） and the Gospel of John（约翰福音全书） in the New Testament have shown different writing systems with the former adopting the China Inland Mission system（内地会系统） and the latter adopting the Wade system（威妥玛系统）. Both bibles are different in consonants, vowels and tones. The differences are explained by the different systems used by the orthographies as mentioned earlier, e.g. the New Testament（新约全书） only has one set of dental consonants ts, ts＇ and s, however the Gospel of John（约翰福音全书） has one more set of dental consonants, which is tz, tz＇ and ss. The entering tone in the China Inland Mission system（内地会系统） is marked with -h, however in the Wade system（威妥玛系统） the roman letter-h represented a sound value. There are five tones in the China Inland Mission system（内地会系统）, but only four tones in the Wade system（威妥玛系统）, the entering tone is distributed among the other tone classes.