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*Bǽh-oe-tu*
Bǽh-oe-tu;
	The Book of Genesis in Bǽh-oe-tu, published by the Bible Society of Great Britain
Script type	Latin alphabet (modified)
Creator	Carl C. Jeremiassen
Time period	since c. 1890
Languages	Haikou dialect of Hainanese
Related scripts
Parent systems	Pe̍h-ōe-jī Bǽh-oe-tu;
	This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Bǽh-oe-tu

Romanization system of the Hainanese language

Bǽh-oe-tu (abbr. BOT; Chinese: 白話字) is an orthography used to write the Haikou dialect of the Hainanese language. It was invented by Carl C. Jeremiassen, a Danish pioneer missionary in Fucheng (present-day Haikou) in 1881.

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Bǽh-oe-tu	Example	Pronunciation
b	巴敗包	ʔɓ
m	妈母矛	m
f	抛派炮	f
v	我眉馬	v
t	三知聲	t
d	担待豆	ʔɗ
n	拿乃腦	n
l	拉利漏	l
c	正鳥爭	ts
s	差猜抄	s
j	雅也熱	z
k	交官縣	k
g	傲牙俄	ŋ
kh	摳科區	x
h	偷听花	h

Tonal types	Tone Marks	Example
陰平 yin ping	none	安天
陽平 yang ping	◌̂	平人
上聲 shang sheng	◌́	古女
陰去 yin qu	◌̀	正變
陽去 yang qu	◌̄	謝厚
陰入 yin ru	none (-b/-t/-k/-h)	急七
陽入 yang ru	◌́ (-b/-t/-k/-h)	六十

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Bǽh-oe-tu

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Consonants

Vowels

Tones

Sample texts from Hainanese Bibles

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Bǽh-oe-tu
The Book of Genesis in Bǽh-oe-tu, published by the Bible Society of Great Britain
Script type	Latin alphabet (modified)
Creator	Carl C. Jeremiassen
Time period	since c. 1890
Languages	Haikou dialect of Hainanese
Related scripts
Parent systems	Pe̍h-ōe-jī Bǽh-oe-tu
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Bǽh-oe-tu	Example	Pronunciation
a	...	a
ai	...	ai
au	...	au
am	...	am
ag	...	aŋ
ab	...	ap
ak	...	ak
e	...	e
eg	...	eŋ
ek	...	ek
æ	...	ɛ
i	...	i
ia	...	ia
iag	...	iaŋ
io	...	io
iu	...	iu
im	...	im
in	...	in
ib	...	ip
it	...	it
o	...	o
og	...	oŋ
ok	...	ok
o͘	...	ɔ
u	...	u
ui	...	ui
oa	...	ua
oai	...	uai
oag	...	uaŋ
oat	...	uat
oak	...	uak
oe	...	ue
...	...	...
...	...	...
...	...	...
...	...	...
...	...	...