Hainanese Literary and Colloquial readings

The following examples in Hainanese Romanization show differences in character readings in Hainanese:

Extracts from the Hainanese Bible can be found here.
Chinese character Spoken pronunciations
Reading pronunciations
(eg. in Placenames/People)
English
tsio (eg. 天上 hi-tsio) siàng (eg. 上帝 Siàng-dì) above
doa (大小 doa-tòe) dà (大衛 Dà-vûi) big
vǽ (馬槽 vǽ-tô) má (馬太 Má-hài) horse
iáng (還是 iáng tī) hoâng (償還 tío-hoâng) still / repay
西 tai (西邊 tai bi) si (摩西 Mô-si ) west
hô͘u (土地 hô͘u-dī) hú (瑪土撒拉 Má-hú-sah-lah) soil
ǣ (私下si ǣ) lóh (下網 lóh-māng) down
nâng (眾人 tsiàng-nâng) zîn (人民 zîn-mîn) person
kía (孩子 tò͘e-kiá) tsí (果子 kóe-tsí) child
sùi khāu (海口 Hái-khāu) mouth
ioh (借給 tsioh-ioh) hò͘e (要給 iàu hò͘e) give
ūi (因為 in-ūi) vûi (以為 ioh-vûi) be
na (但有 na ū) dàng (約但河 Io͘ k-dàng hô) give
ziák (一件 ziák-kīn) it (第一 doa-it) one
bæ̂ (平地 bæ̂-dī) fêng (和平 hoa-fêng) peace or flat
mûi (窄門 éh mûi) mûn (所羅門 Tó-lô-mûn) door
lîo (量器 lîo-khùi) liāng (身量 tin-liāng) measure
hau (時候 tî-hau) hō͘u (等候 dáng-hō͘u) wait / time
lo͘u (道路 dāu-lo͘u) lù (路加 Lù-kia) road
fak (俯伏 fú-fak) fok (制伏 tsì-fok) prostrate / lean
kó͘u (古時 kó͘u tî) kú (亞古士督 A-kú-sī-do͘k) ancient
mia (生命 tæ-mia) mēng (誡命 kài-mēng) life / ordinance
dò (當作 dò-toh) dang (應當 eng-dang) to be
bun (分離 bun-lî) fūn (職分 tsek-fūn) part
tâi (先去 tâi khù) tin (先生 tin-tæ) firstly

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