Teochew Words Ending with “n” or “ng”

Except for Teochew words without vowels, e.g. ng₁ (yellow), tng₂ (=broken), tng₄ (=go back), tng₅ (=pawn), etc, other Teochew words do not have distinctly “ng” sound. It is a fact that for majority of Teochews, surname 陳 (陈) is written as “Tan” rather than “Tang”. In view of this, TPB System of Romanised Teochew, uses “n” as the standard ~~but accepts “ng” as variant~~. I believe that because other Romanised Teochew Systems use n of word to represent nasal sound, they have to end words with ng instead of n for words without nasal sound. Unfortunately these systems are phonetically wrong.

Example:

copper/brass = tan₁, not tang₁

heavy = tan₂, not tang₂

east = tan₃, not tang₃

wait = tan₄, not tang₄

freeze = tan₅, not tang₅

cave = tan₀, not tang₀

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