A study on the correspondence between IPA notation and pinyin script of Bai language

¹ College of Engineering, Yuxi Normal University, Yuxi, Yunnan 653100, China
² School of Mathematics and Computer, Dali University, Dali, Yunnan 671003, China
³ Yunnan Key Laboratory of Smart City in Cyberspace Security, Yuxi Normal University, Yuxi, Yunnan 653100, China
⁴ College of Chinese Language and Literature, Yuxi Normal University, Yuxi, Yunnan 653100, China

^* Corresponding author: yangjian@yxnu.edu.cn

Abstract

The Pinyin script of Bai language is the official script currently used by the Bai ethnic minority in China. However, due to various reasons, the process of its promotion and usage is relatively slow. The lack of learning materials for comparing Pinyin script of Bai language with Chinese has become an important obstacle to the application and promotion of Pinyin script of Bai language. Currently, there is no dedicated Bai language corpus, and a large part of the linguistic resources in existing research archives are directly annotated with international phonetic alphabet (IPA) for Bai language with its corresponding lists of transliteration and paraphrase of Mandarin Chinese. In contrast, resources for comparing Pinyin script of Bai language with Mandarin Chinese are very scarce. Addressing this problem, the paper studies the conversion rules from Bai language IPA to Pinyin script. The research results will help convert the existing Bai language corpus in literature from IPA to Pinyin script, greatly increasing the bilingual comparison resources of Bai language and Chinese, which can actively promote the usage of Pinyin Bai script and the protection and development of Bai language.