Bǽh-oe-tu

*Bǽh-oe-tu*
Bǽh-oe-tu;
	The Book of Genesis in Bǽh-oe-tu, published by the Bible Society of Great Britain
Script type	Latin alphabet (modified)
Creator	Carl C. Jeremiassen
Time period	since c. 1890
Languages	Haikou dialect of Hainanese
Related scripts
Parent systems	Pe̍h-ōe-jī Bǽh-oe-tu;
	This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Bǽh-oe-tu (abbr. BOT; Chinese: 白話字) is an orthography used to write the Haikou dialect of the Hainanese language. It was invented by Carl C. Jeremiassen, a Danish pioneer missionary in Fucheng (present-day Haikou) in 1881.

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Bǽh-oe-tu
The Book of Genesis in Bǽh-oe-tu, published by the Bible Society of Great Britain
Script type	Latin alphabet (modified)
Creator	Carl C. Jeremiassen
Time period	since c. 1890
Languages	Haikou dialect of Hainanese
Related scripts
Parent systems	Pe̍h-ōe-jī Bǽh-oe-tu
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.