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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by literallycancer on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @06:40AM (#22864450)
If weird annotations can work for slightly different phonemes in Orthographia Bohemica and for Zamenhof, I'm sure you would be able to use them for tones as well.
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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by riffraff on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:40PM (#22874273)
You can, it's how it's done, but it means someone who knows any other language using the Latin script still can't read it.

A speaker of French, Polish, German, Hungarian or Turkish can muddle through trying to pronounce another European language using the Latin script and get 95% of it but will have no idea of how to read Vietnamese.

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