Talk:Tangshan

T’ang Shan

In July 2020, an IP wrote "T’ang Shan" on this talk page. In my experience, many English language geographical terms derived from Mandarin have alternative forms that put a space between the syllables in the word, just like "T'ang Shan". This includes Hanyu Pinyin, Wade-Giles and other romanization schemes. Here is an example of T'ang Shan: [1]. Because Wade-Giles has been scrupulously neglected by the Wiki community lo these past two decades, there is not enough of a foundation to build upon to document all these variations at this time, but I leave this note here as a reminder and marker of another fascinating vista in the linguistic puzzle. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 09:36, 31 December 2020 (UTC)