The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) is a non-profitacademic association, which was formally registered as a charitable organization in Hong Kong on March 8, 1986. A nonprofit organization (abbreviated NPO, or non-profit or not-for-profit) is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ... An organization or organisation (read more about -ize vs -ise) is a formal group of people with one or more shared goals. ... March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
They are the creators of "The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme" known as Jyutping. Jyutping (Traditional Chinese: ç²µæ¼; Simplified Chinese: 粤æ¼; pinyin: yuèpÄ«n; Yale: yuhtpÄ«ng; Jyutping: jyut6ping3; sometimes spelled Jyutpin) is a romanization system for Standard Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) in 1993. ...
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The HongKong Government Cantonese Romanisation (not an official name) is the more or less consistent way for romanising Cantonese proper nouns employed by the HongKong Government departments and many non-governmental organisations in HongKong.
This article illustrage and explain how the proper nouns in HongKong are transcribed and romanised, and the corresponding pronunciations of the spellings with respect to IPA and Jyutping.
Nonetheless, the names "HongKong" and "Kowloon" are not transliterated based on this system, as they were already named as such prior to the founding of the colony.