FOR ARCHIVING: Registration form for 'tongyong'

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

1. Name of requester: Phake Nick

2. E-mail address of requester: c933103 at gmail.com

3. Record Requested:

Type: variant
Subtag: tongyong
Description: Tongyong Pinyin romanization
Prefix: zh-Latn
Comments: Former official transcription standard for Mandarin Chinese in
  Taiwan.

4. Intended meaning of the subtag: Indicate Romanized content that use
Tongyong pinyin romanization

5. Reference to published description of the language (book or
article):

a. "Guidelines of Using Chinese Phonetic Spelling", published by the
government of Taiwan in 2002.
http://www.rootlaw.com.tw/LawContent.aspx?LawID=A040030001010900-1000310

b. "Hanyu Pinyin to be standard system in 2009". Shih Hsiu-Chuan. In
Taipei Times, 2008-09-18.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/09/18/2003423528

c. "Lost in Romanisation". In The Economist, 2014-06-07.
https://www.economist.com/asia/2014/06/07/lost-in-romanisation

6. Any other relevant information: The Tongyong Pinyin transcription standard was official in Taiwan in the mid-2000s. It has now been displaced by Pinyin romanization as the official transcription rule for Chinese languages in Taiwan, however it is still continually being used to a certain extent within Taiwan and thus it would be helpful to have a variant subtag to separate it from Pinyin Romanization.