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Yuen Ren Chao

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Yuen Ren Chao (趙元任 Pinyin: Zhào Yuánrén) was a Chinese phonologist and dialectologist who invented the modern Gwoyeu Romatzyh.

Born in Tianjin with ancestry in Changzhou, Jiangsu.

When in US in 1921, Chao recorded the standard Mandarin pronunciation gramophones distributed nationally (as proposed by Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation).

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