Talk:Li (surname 李)

message: Does anyone know why the romanization Dy is sometimes used in the Philippines for Li?--71.111.229.19 (talk) 22:02, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't, but since [l] and [d] are both alveolar consonants, it is possible that they sound similar to people there. (Although that is just speculation, and I don't know how likely it is, given that the Filipino language seems to have both of those sounds as separate phonemes. rʨanaɢ (talk) 03:36, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

text: Dan, thanks for that! I knew about / allophonic variation before, but I must say I hadn't known about the  realisation being an earlier one for . But now on close examination of e.g. the sound files of http://203.64.42.21/iug/ungian/soannteng/chil/taihoa.asp, it does sound as though  is the more 'official' pronunciation. Phonetic realisations can be so subtle at times! But thank you! Michael Ly (talk) 18:37, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Actually, according to some sources, it's a flap sound .  That sounds like the Japanese , Spanish single , the "tt" in "butter" in some US regional dialects of English.  So, you can say it's something in-between  and .  To an untrained Chinese ear, it would sound like an .  To other untrained ears, it may sound like a , depending on mother tongue.  Dan (talk) 01:48, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Dy" Romanization 

message: See Talk:Li (surname) where a second discussion has been opened on this topic of names, articles, how many to have, how to organize them. The older discussion is still going on at  Talk:Li (surname meaning "profit")  -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 00:07, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger and naming discussions

message: There is a Request for Comment concerning this article at Talk:Li_(surname)#RFC_regarding_multiple_Chinese_surnames_transliterated_to_the_same_surname_in_English.  Please provide input there.--Wikimedes (talk) 03:36, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  RFC at Li (surname) 

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message: Hello, I'm wondering what kind of romanization system spelled Li as Lee, particularly in Singaporean/Malaysian context, and specifically for the name of Lee Kuan Yew. I'll be grateful if anybody can shed any light on this. Bennylin (talk) 15:12, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: "Lee" is the anglicized spelling following the English surname. It does not conform to any romanization system. -Zanhe (talk) 23:11, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! Bennylin (talk) 17:58, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lee - which romanization? 

message: Lý Bí and Lý Công Uẩn were ancestry Chinese. So excluding Vietnamese as non-CHinese is less acceptable. 2601:204:E37F:FFF1:9852:4D3F:B5F3:B12D (talk) 00:19, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the Vietnamese Lý non-Chinese? 

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