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Hi, just wanted to respond to your suggestion of a category and template. I'm no expert on the subject, but I worked a bit on the Bangladesh article. Didn't find a lot of material, but noticed a few citations to one of the articles cited there, and you might want to try web searches based on it:

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Re: Two transliteration suggestions

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Hello Lo Ximiendo,

Thank you for your suggestions. I currently am quite busy in daily life and do not have time to update that transliteration tool, nevertheless you can continue to give your suggestions via email or by leaving a message on my Wikipedia usertalk page and I can update those lists in bulk.

Yes, it is true that the Northern Min transliteration tool (based on the Jian'ou dialect) is not [yet] as comprehensive as the Eastern Min and Southern Min transliteration tools.

This is because I have not yet found an online dictionary or book publication which contains a comprehensive listing of the romanized northern min vocabulary.

By the way, if you are interested in knowing more about the Northern Min language written in the romanization used by the missionaries a century ago, you can now view the entire Northern Min Romanized New Testament online. (If you click "上一頁" (it would take you to the previous page", and clicking on "下一頁" would take you to the next page). Alternatively, you can toggle through by entering the page number, eg:

It would contain a huge wealth of words and vocab.

Some of those words I am able to guess/decipher what their chinese character equivalents are, whereas there are some words which I am not completely sure yet and would need help from a native Northern Min speaker to shed more light on it.

Generally speaking, when those western missionaries published a romanized Bible in a certain sinitic language, they would also subsequently publish a dictionary which shows the Chinese Character and its romanized equivalent. I have not yet found such a dictionary for this particular dialect (Jian'ou, formerly known in those days as "Kienow").

Anyway, even if such a dictionary was never published at that time, it would still be possible to obtain help from native speakers of that language. I am not currently living in China (especially in the Northern Min speaking region), hence it would be slightly more difficult for me to get the full list of chinese character to Northern Min conversion tables.

In the future, if I ever encounter a native Northern Min speaker online or if I have the time to visit the Northern Min region, then I would have the chance to get that Northern Min transliteration tool substantially updated with the full list of vocab. --JackonLee54 (talk) 10:20, 5 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

By the way, how did you first encounter (ie. discover) my transliteration blog on blogger.com? What was the keyword that you typed? --JackonLee54 (talk) 10:21, 5 September 2017 (UTC)Reply
The external links of the article on Kienning Colloquial Romanized. All because I wanted to add, to a certain template at Wiktionary, a parameter for Min Bei pronunciation. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 10:29, 5 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

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@JJPMaster: Teqvoly is a variation of Teqball, which uses a curved table and a volley ball instead of a soccer ball. --Apisite (talk) 00:57, 4 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
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