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accepted into Chinese, a language usually resistant to loanwords, because their foreign origin was hidden by their written form. Often different compounds for the same concept were in circulation for some time before a winner emerged, and sometimes the final choice differed between countries. The proportion of vocabulary of Chinese origin thus tends to be greater in technical, abstract, or formal language. For example, in Japan,
4461: 2331: 5486:, were the first to attempt to describe the sounds and enunciation patterns of Chinese in a foreign language. After the 15th century, the efforts of Jesuits and Western court missionaries resulted in some Latin character transcription/writing systems, based on various variants of Chinese languages. Some of these Latin character-based systems are still being used to write various Chinese variants in the modern era. 5422:, which are written within imaginary square blocks, traditionally arranged in vertical columns, read from top to bottom down a column, and right to left across columns, despite alternative arrangement with rows of characters from left to right within a row and from top to bottom across rows (like English and other Western writing systems) having become more popular since the 20th century. Chinese characters denote 5396: 6307:, p. 56. "To call Chinese a single language composed of dialects with varying degrees of difference is to mislead by minimizing disparities that according to Chao are as great as those between English and Dutch. To call Chinese a family of languages is to suggest extralinguistic differences that in fact do not exist and to overlook the unique linguistic situation that exists in China." 2369: 2357: 2345: 5718: 2829:
to major branches of Chinese such as Mandarin, Wu, and so on as "dialects" because the mutual unintelligibility between them is too great. However, calling major Chinese branches "languages" would also be wrong under the same criterion, since a branch such as Wu, itself contains many mutually unintelligible varieties, and could not be properly called a single language.
5455:, based on spoken Standard Chinese, regardless of dialectical background. Written vernacular Chinese largely replaced Literary Chinese in the early 20th century as the country's standard written language. However, vocabularies from different Chinese-speaking areas have diverged, and the divergence can be observed in written Chinese. 3566:: sound changes over time have steadily reduced the number of possible syllables in the language's inventory. In modern Mandarin, there are only around 1,200 possible syllables, including the tonal distinctions, compared with about 5,000 in Vietnamese (still a largely monosyllabic language), and over 8,000 in English. 1580:). These branches are unintelligible to each other, and many of their subgroups are unintelligible with the other varieties within the same branch (e.g. Southern Min). There are, however, transitional areas where varieties from different branches share enough features for some limited intelligibility, including 2774:). Standard Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin. The governments of both China and Taiwan intend for speakers of all Chinese speech varieties to use it as a common language of communication. Therefore, it is used in government agencies, in the media, and as a language of instruction in schools. 1514: 5373:
these terms as to whether the Japanese or Chinese coined them first. As a result of this loaning, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese share a corpus of linguistic terms describing modern terminology, paralleling the similar corpus of terms built from Greco-Latin and shared among European languages.
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respectively. In each, the homophone was disambiguated by the addition of another morpheme, typically either a near-synonym or some sort of generic word (e.g. 'head', 'thing'), the purpose of which is to indicate which of the possible meanings of the other, homophonic syllable is specifically meant.
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roots in European languages. Many new compounds, or new meanings for old phrases, were created in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to name Western concepts and artifacts. These coinages, written in shared Chinese characters, have then been borrowed freely between languages. They have even been
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in Japanese, which in the original Chinese meant 'the workings of the state', narrowed to 'economy' in Japanese; this narrowed definition was then re-imported into Chinese. As a result, these terms are virtually indistinguishable from native Chinese words: indeed, there is some dispute over some of
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The designation of various Chinese branches remains controversial. Some linguists and most ordinary Chinese people consider all the spoken varieties as one single language, as speakers share a common national identity and a common written form. Others instead argue that it is inappropriate to refer
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spread over East Asia between the 2nd and 5th centuries CE, and with it the study of scriptures and literature in Literary Chinese. Later, strong central governments modeled on Chinese institutions were established in Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, with Literary Chinese serving as the language of
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Old Chinese vocabulary already contained many words not generally occurring in the other Sino-Tibetan languages. The words for 'honey' and 'lion', and probably also 'horse', 'dog', and 'goose', are connected with Indo-European and were acquired through trade and early contacts. (The nearest known
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The entire Chinese character corpus since antiquity comprises well over 50,000 characters, of which only roughly 10,000 are in use and only about 3,000 are frequently used in Chinese media and newspapers. However, Chinese characters should not be confused with Chinese words. Because most Chinese
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All varieties of spoken Chinese use tones to distinguish words. A few dialects of north China may have as few as three tones, while some dialects in south China have up to 6 or 12 tones, depending on how one counts. One exception from this is Shanghainese which has reduced the set of tones to a
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The number of sounds in the different spoken dialects varies, but in general, there has been a tendency to a reduction in sounds from Middle Chinese. The Mandarin dialects in particular have experienced a dramatic decrease in sounds and so have far more polysyllabic words than most other spoken
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in many of them, and the effects of language contact. In addition, many of the smaller languages are spoken in mountainous areas that are difficult to reach and are often also sensitive border zones. Without a secure reconstruction of Proto-Sino-Tibetan, the higher-level structure of the family
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There are also viewpoints pointing out that linguists often ignore mutual intelligibility when varieties share intelligibility with a central variety (i.e. prestige variety, such as Standard Mandarin), as the issue requires some careful handling when mutual intelligibility is inconsistent with
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Due to the divergence of variants, some unique morphemes are not found in Standard Chinese. Characters rarely used in Standard Chinese have also been created or inherited from archaic literary standards to represent these unique morphemes. For example, characters like
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words are made up of two or more characters, there are many more Chinese words than characters. A more accurate equivalent for a Chinese character is the morpheme, as characters represent the smallest grammatical units with individual meanings in the Chinese language.
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Chinese is often described as a 'monosyllabic' language. However, this is only partially correct. It is largely accurate when describing Old and Middle Chinese; in Classical Chinese, around 90% of words consist of a single character that corresponds one-to-one with a
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project (2010) contains 97,404 contemporary entries including idioms, technology terms, and names of political figures, businesses, and products. The 2009 version of the Webster's Digital Chinese Dictionary (WDCD), based on CC-CEDICT, contains over 84,000 entries.
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administration and scholarship, a position it would retain until the late 19th century in Korea and (to a lesser extent) Japan, and the early 20th century in Vietnam. Scholars from different lands could communicate, albeit only in writing, using Literary Chinese.
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in Japanese, Vietnamese, and Korean, and transcription evidence. The resulting system is very complex, with a large number of consonants and vowels, but they are probably not all distinguished in any single dialect. Most linguists now believe it represents a
2914: 2400:. Until the late 20th century, Chinese emigrants to Southeast Asia and North America came from southeast coastal areas, where Min, Hakka, and Yue dialects were spoken. Specifically, most Chinese immigrants to North America until the mid-20th century spoke 4236:, a multi-volume encyclopedic dictionary reference work, gives 122,836 vocabulary entry definitions under 19,485 Chinese characters, including proper names, phrases, and common zoological, geographical, sociological, scientific, and technical terms. 1863:
and the phonetic elements found in the majority of Chinese characters. Although many of the finer details remain unclear, most scholars agree that Old Chinese differs from Middle Chinese in lacking retroflex and palatal obstruents but having initial
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When used within European texts, the tone transcriptions in both pinyin and Wade–Giles are often left out for simplicity; Wade–Giles's extensive use of apostrophes is also usually omitted. Thus, most Western readers will be much more familiar with
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Besides Mandarin, Cantonese is the only other Chinese language that is widely taught as a foreign language, largely due to the economic and cultural influence of Hong Kong and its widespread usage among significant Overseas Chinese communities.
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variants and merging characters with similar pronunciations to the one with the least strokes, among other methods. Singapore, which has a large Chinese community, was the second nation to officially adopt simplified characters—first by
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In Mandarin much more than in other spoken varieties, most syllables tend to be open syllables, meaning they have no coda (assuming that a final glide is not analyzed as a coda), but syllables that do have codas are restricted to nasals
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from other cultures. Most Chinese words are formed out of native Chinese morphemes, including words describing imported objects and ideas. However, direct phonetic borrowing of foreign words has gone on since ancient times.
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Indo-European languages were Tocharian and Sogdian, a middle Iranian language.) Some words have Austroasiatic cognates and point to early contacts with the ancestral language of Muong–Vietnamese and Mon–Khmer.
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The Internet provides practice reading each of these systems, and most Chinese readers are capable of, if not necessarily comfortable with, reading the alternative system through experience and guesswork.
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With the growing importance and influence of China's economy globally, Standard Chinese instruction has been gaining popularity in schools throughout East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Western world.
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system. These works define phonological categories but with little hint of what sounds they represent. Linguists have identified these sounds by comparing the categories with pronunciations in modern
4766:, continue to enter the Chinese language by transcription according to their pronunciations. This is done by employing Chinese characters with similar pronunciations. For example, 'Israel' becomes 1790:. As the language evolved over this period, the various local varieties became mutually unintelligible. In reaction, central governments have repeatedly sought to promulgate a unified standard. 1548:. Investigation of the historical relationships among the varieties of Chinese is ongoing. Currently, most classifications posit 7 to 13 main regional groups based on phonetic developments from 5120:; 'lettered words') spelled with letters from the English alphabet. These have appeared in colloquial usage, as well as in magazines and newspapers, and on websites and television: 2727: 5763:, was invented by Thomas Wade in 1859 and modified by Herbert Giles in 1892. As this system approximates the phonology of Mandarin Chinese into English consonants and vowels–it is largely an 3552:, the smallest unit of meaning in a language. In modern varieties, it usually remains the case that morphemes are monosyllabic—in contrast, English has many multi-syllable morphemes, both 1960:: as spoken, Chinese varieties have evolved at different rates, while the written language used throughout China changed comparatively little, crystallizing into a prestige form known as 1868:
of some sort, and in having voiceless nasals and liquids. Most recent reconstructions also describe an atonal language with consonant clusters at the end of the syllable, developing into
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area, though not identical to any single dialect. By the middle of the 19th century, the Beijing dialect had become dominant and was essential for any business with the imperial court.
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languages, and today comprise over half of their vocabularies. This massive influx led to changes in the phonological structure of the languages, contributing to the development of
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script. However, these were limited to popular literature until the late 19th century. Today Japanese is written with a composite script using both Chinese characters called
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A very common example used to illustrate the use of tones in Chinese is the application of the four tones of Standard Chinese, along with the neutral tone, to the syllable
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varieties. The total number of syllables in some varieties is therefore only about a thousand, including tonal variation, which is only about an eighth as many as English.
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respectively, but the Yue variety spoken in Wuzhou is more similar to the Guangzhou dialect than is Taishanese. Wuzhou is located directly upstream from Guangzhou on the
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are actively used in Cantonese and Hakka, while being archaic or unused in standard written Chinese. The most prominent example of a non-Standard Chinese orthography is
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However, when one of the above words forms part of a compound, the disambiguating syllable is generally dropped and the resulting word is still disyllabic. For example,
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dictionary, contains over 40,000 characters, including obscure, variant, rare, and archaic characters; fewer than a quarter of these characters are now commonly used.
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is still required, and hanja are increasingly rarely used in South Korea. As a result of its historical colonization by France, Vietnamese now uses the Latin-based
9785: 6060:(invented for use by US troops during World War II), as well as distinct systems for the phonetic requirements of Cantonese, Min Nan, Hakka, and other varieties. 5793:(Wade–Giles). This simplification presents syllables as homophones which are not, and therefore exaggerates the number of homophones almost by a factor of four. 3297:" and thus counted separately for a total of nine tones. However, they are considered to be duplicates in modern linguistics and are no longer counted as such: 10525: 9307: 2917: 4245:, an authoritative one-volume dictionary on modern standard Chinese language as used in mainland China, has 13,000 head characters and defines 70,000 words. 3556:, such as 'seven', 'elephant', 'para-' and '-able'. Some of the more conservative modern varieties, usually found in the south, have largely monosyllabic 15872: 10332: 10322: 4216:(1994) contains 85,568 head entries for character definitions and is the largest reference work based purely on character and its literary variants. The 4947:'coffee'. The influence of English is particularly pronounced: from the early 20th century, many English words were borrowed into Shanghainese, such as 5049:; 'bus'). With the rising popularity of the Internet, there is a current vogue in China for coining English transliterations, for example, 6263:; 'dialect' does not carry the precise connotations of "dialect" in English—while linguists typically analyze them as separate languages. See 4525:. Today, it is much more common to use existing Chinese morphemes to coin new words to represent imported concepts, such as technical expressions and 10327: 10086: 9634: 2187:
Borrowed Chinese morphemes have been used extensively in all these languages to coin compound words for new concepts, in a similar way to the use of
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A well-educated Chinese reader today recognizes approximately 4,000 to 6,000 characters; approximately 3,000 characters are required to read a
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Because of the difficulties involved in determining the difference between language and dialect, other terms have been proposed. These include
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Although they used Chinese solely for written communication, each country had its own tradition of reading texts aloud using what are known as
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account for about 35% of the words in entertainment magazines, over half the words in newspapers, and 60% of the words in science magazines.
7524: 6342:, p. 42 counts Chinese as having 1,277 tonal syllables, and about 398 to 418 if tones are disregarded; he cites Jespersen, Otto (1928) 5688:, then by adopting entirely the PRC simplified characters. It has also become the de facto standard for younger ethnic Chinese in Malaysia. 13386: 11097: 6356: 5664:. Calligraphy artists can write in Traditional and Simplified characters, but they tend to use Traditional characters for traditional art. 2976:. There are some instances where a vowel is not used as a nucleus. An example of this is in Cantonese, where the nasal sonorant consonants 14205: 15721: 10408: 9646: 8944: 5474:
Chinese had no uniform system of phonetic transcription until the mid-20th century, although enunciation patterns were recorded in early
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Western foreign words representing Western concepts have influenced Chinese since the 20th century through transcription. From French,
4884:('motor') sound more like their English counterparts. Cantonese differs from Mandarin with some transliterations, such as 4475: 2140:
Historically, the Chinese language has spread to its neighbors through a variety of means. Northern Vietnam was incorporated into the
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Standard Chinese is an official language throughout China. Cantonese is a co-official language specifically in Hong Kong and Macao.
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In modern spoken Mandarin, however, tremendous ambiguity would result if all of these words could be used as-is. The 20th century
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Up to the early 20th century, most Chinese people only spoke their local variety. Thus, as a practical measure, officials of the
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Local varieties of Chinese are conventionally classified into seven dialect groups, largely based on the different evolution of
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finally settled on the Beijing dialect in 1932. The People's Republic founded in 1949 retained this standard but renamed it
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In parts of South China, the dialect of a major city may be only marginally intelligible to its neighbors. For example,
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has been promoted by the government of the People's Republic of China, with Singapore officially adopting them in 1976.
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Since the 20th century, another source of words has been kanji: Japan re-molded European concepts and inventions into
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Each Chinese character represents a monosyllabic Chinese word or morpheme. In 100 CE, the famed Han dynasty scholar
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The colloquial layers of many varieties, particularly Min varieties, reflect features that predate Middle Chinese.
16047: 16037: 14086: 11189: 10678: 4563:; 'electric speech'), built out of native Chinese morphemes became prevalent. Other examples include 1888: 1781: 549: 1663:, recorded a compromise between the pronunciations of different regions. The royal courts of the Ming and early 15060: 14514: 9385: 9028: 7903: 6183: 3320: 1492: 1446: 1287: 1143: 807: 604: 67: 8102:(2011). "A transnational approach to East Asian book history". In Chakravorty, Swapan; Gupta, Abhijit (eds.). 7843: 2392:
has estimated that there are hundreds of mutually unintelligible varieties of Chinese. These varieties form a
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Chinese varieties have been phonetically transcribed into many other writing systems over the centuries. The
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were established in northern Korea in the 1st century BCE but disintegrated in the following centuries.
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that is still widely used in Taiwan to aid standard pronunciation. There are also at least two systems of
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Occasionally, compromises between the transliteration and translation approaches become accepted, such as
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This article is about the Chinese language, which includes many varieties. For the standardized form, see
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Norman, Jerry (2003). "The Chinese dialects: phonology". In Thurgood, Graham; LaPolla, Randy J. (eds.).
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and Taishan are located approximately 260 km (160 mi) and 190 km (120 mi) away from
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is common among Chinese speakers. For example, a Shanghai resident may speak both Standard Chinese and
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Syllables in the Chinese languages have some unique characteristics. They are tightly related to the
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Vietnam, Korea, and Japan each developed writing systems for their own languages, initially based on
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of Mandarin and was first officially adopted in the 1930s. The language is written primarily using a
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Sohn, Ho-Min; Lee, Peter H. (2003). "Language, forms, prosody, and themes". In Lee, Peter H. (ed.).
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In 1991, there were 2,000 foreign learners taking China's official Chinese Proficiency Test, called
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Hymes, Dell (1971). "Sociolinguistics and the ethnography of speaking". In Ardener, Edwin (ed.).
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Chinese language(s): a look through the prism of the Great dictionary of modern Chinese dialects
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Modern neologisms are primarily translated into Chinese in one of three ways: free translation (
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Cantonese as a Second Language: Issues, Experiences, and Suggestions for Teaching and Learning
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can consist of more than one character–morpheme, usually two, but there can be three or more.
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and split into several varieties following prolonged geographic and political separation. The
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dynasties (6th–10th centuries CE). It can be divided into an early period, reflected by the
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Thomason, Sarah Grey (1988). "Languages of the World". In Paulston, Christina Bratt (ed.).
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Some early Indo-European loanwords in Chinese have been proposed, notably 'honey' (
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The Chinese government's official Chinese designation for the major branches of Chinese is
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On the history of the standardization of Mandarin as the Chinese primary national dialect.
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Estimates of the total number of Chinese words and lexicalized phrases vary greatly. The
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family. The spoken varieties of Chinese are usually considered by native speakers to be
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syllabaries for Japanese, while Vietnamese continued to be written with the complex
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education and language policy in postcolonial Hong Kong". In Zhou, Minglang (ed.).
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encompassing 6th-century northern and southern standards for reading the classics.
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at the Ohio State University with hundreds of links to Chinese related web pages.
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is often used to illustrate the eight basic types of strokes of Chinese characters
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The most comprehensive pure linguistic Chinese-language dictionary, the 12-volume
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In contrast, Standard Cantonese has six tones. Historically, finals that end in a
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Language policy in the People's Republic of China: theory and practice since 1949
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Language attitudes and identities in multilingual China: a linguistic ethnography
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are primarily Muslim and live mainly in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia; many
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Another result of English influence on Chinese is the appearance of so-called
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rime dictionary (601 CE), and a late period in the 10th century, reflected by
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independent of phonetic variation in different languages. Thus the character
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The complex relationship between spoken and written Chinese is an example of
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Einige Übereinstimmungen zwischen dem Chinesischen und dem Indogermanischen
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by comparing later varieties of Chinese with the rhyming practice of the
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construction to form sentences. Chinese also has an extensive system of
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List of countries and territories where Chinese is an official language
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Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
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Wurm, Stephen Adolphe; Li, Rong; Baumann, Theo; Lee, Mei W. (1987).
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Like many other languages, Chinese has absorbed a sizable number of
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The earliest examples of Old Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on
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The first written records appeared over 3,000 years ago during the
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can be reconstructed from the rhymes of ancient poetry. During the
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Lewis, M. Paul; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2015),
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Most modern varieties tend to form new words through polysyllabic
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in everyday speech. In part due to traditional cultural ties with
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means they are sometimes considered to be separate languages in a
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Webster's Digital Chinese Dictionary – Advanced Reference Edition
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are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and among Chinese-speaking
1537: 1221: 879: 563: 274: 152: 3997:; 'petroleum'. Although many single-syllable morphemes ( 15686: 14435: 10959: 10761: 7420: 6998: 6996: 5928: 5872: 4931:) were borrowed for 'ballet' and 'champagne' respectively; 4518: 4424: 4400: 4092: 4080: 2693: 2424: 2412: 2210: 2033:
dynasties carried out the administration of the empire using a
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Huang, Cheng-Teh James; Li, Yen-Hui Audrey; Li, Yafei (2009),
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International Handbook of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
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classified characters under a now-common set of 214 radicals.
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verse form in this language. Together with the slightly later
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was a dictionary that codified the rhyming conventions of new
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constructed by ancient Chinese philologists as a guide to the
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is often assumed, but has not been convincingly demonstrated.
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Examples of Chinese words of more than two syllables include
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Today the most common romanization for Standard Chinese is
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Linguists classify all varieties of Chinese as part of the
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exploits this, consisting of 92 characters all pronounced
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characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see
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Linguists in China often use a formulation introduced by
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dynasties in northern China, a common speech (now called
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Language in Society: an Introduction to Sociolinguistics
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to fewer strokes, especially by adopting common cursive
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There are currently two systems for Chinese characters.
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remains unclear. A top-level branching into Chinese and
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and dictionaries. Early Indian translators, working in
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during the Old Chinese period include 'grape' (
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and also to the characters of the writing system, and
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with 66%, or around 800 million speakers, followed by
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New dialect formation: the case of Taiwanese Mandarin
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Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
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Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion
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The Chinese language: its history and current usage
7401: 5741:is the process of transcribing a language into the 5521:, living mainly in China, also speak the language. 5103:; 'interconnected tribes') for 'blog'. 2148:that ran almost continuously for a millennium. The 1127: 791: 540: Status as an official or educational language 8928: 8816:Arablouei, Ramtin; Rund Abdelfatah (26 May 2022). 8534: 8282: 8232:. University of Pennsylvania: 1–31. Archived from 7279: 7235: 7095: 6890: 6367:There are plural markers in the language, such as 6247: 3953:, appears in compounds as meaning 'stone' such as 3108:with each of the primary tones in Standard Chinese 2688:Some varieties remain unclassified, including the 1876:have also been identified, but the language lacks 8158: 7657:. Arlington, Va: Center for Applied Linguistics. 7430: 7182: 4755:; 'better-than hundred tastes') for ' 4083:(word order and sentence structure), rather than 16009: 8708: 7773:Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed. (2012). 7002: 6335: 6333: 6293:Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar 6204:North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics 6063: 5759:The second-most common romanization system, the 5648:. Various other written styles are also used in 4423:, Mongolian or northeast regions generally have 3601:lists six words that are commonly pronounced as 2224: 8440:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 8372:Middle Chinese: A study in Historical Phonology 7990:(in Chinese). Chinese University of Hong Kong. 7107: 2921:A man speaking Mandarin with a Malaysian accent 2812:, Cantonese is used as an everyday language in 8667: 8560:. Cambridge University Press. pp. 15–51. 7702:, vol. 84, no. 3, pp. 636–641, 7083: 5451:Most modern written Chinese is in the form of 5361: 5333: 2933:they are structured according to fixed rules. 15866: 14522: 14094: 13467: 13380: 11091: 11067: 9029: 6330: 6114:, giving Chinese language instruction at the 4961:; 'golf') and the aforementioned 4942: 4337:). Ancient words borrowed from along the 2936:The structure of each syllable consists of a 1855:. Scholars have attempted to reconstruct the 1540:of a single language. However, their lack of 1292: 1276: 943: 609: 593: 534: Significant Chinese-speaking population 10828: 2665:(1987), distinguishes three further groups: 2180:structure in Japanese and the disruption of 1988:dynasty and subsequent reign of the Jurchen 1979: 1887:Middle Chinese was the language used during 8366: 8251: 8127:(Doctor of Philosophy). University of Essex 7265: 6459: 5556:classified characters into six categories: 2035:common language based on Mandarin varieties 1483:; 'Chinese writing') is a group of 1464: 15873: 15859: 14529: 14515: 14108: 14101: 14087: 13474: 13460: 13387: 13373: 11313: 11098: 11084: 11049: 10819: 9036: 9022: 8750: 8497:ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese 8106:. Worldview Publications. pp. 65–79. 7551: 4852:; 'smart (fashionable)'), and 2215:alphabet for Korean and supplemented with 517: 55: 14536: 8904:, translated by Gilbert Louis Mattos and 8727: 8686: 8648: 8513: 8494: 8477: 8459: 8061:"Language Policy in the KMT and DPP eras" 7955: 7834: 7782:Language Atlas of China: Chinese dialects 7747: 7589: 7385:"Indo-European Vocabulary in Old Chinese" 7369: 7353:Egerod, Søren Christian (12 April 2024). 7176: 7137: 6932: 6920: 6908: 6884: 6812: 6644: 6584: 6513:Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (2012) 6357:Baxter's transcription for Middle Chinese 6339: 6304: 4130: 2000:) developed based on the dialects of the 1793: 1616:at least to some degree, and are largely 8926: 8668:Wardaugh, Ronald; Fuller, Janet (2014). 8629: 8574: 8139: 8098: 7808:Journal of the American Oriental Society 7721: 7693: 7617: 7161: 7149: 7050: 7038: 7026: 6860: 6848: 6105: 6095: 6088:for Chinese. The most widespread is the 5716: 5540: 5394: 5045: 5035: 5025: 5015: 4900: 4890: 4486:by adding descriptive text and removing 2912: 2434: 2294: 2278: 2122: 2078:National Language Unification Commission 1872:distinctions in Middle Chinese. Several 1701:official languages of the United Nations 1509: 407:Chinese Language Standardisation Council 14551: 13498: 13481: 10744: 8728:Zhang, Bennan; Yang, Robin R. (2004). " 8593: 8555: 8407: 8309:Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction 7421:"Requirements for Chinese Text Layout" 7282:Langenscheidt Pocket Chinese Dictionary 7277: 6824: 5644:Modern characters are styled after the 5624:) with a semantic component of the 4975:; 'sofa'). Later, American 4521:), phonetic translation (by sound), or 3599:Langenscheidt Pocket Chinese Dictionary 2984:can stand alone as their own syllable. 2549:Proportions of first-language speakers 1747:and many other languages spoken in the 560:question marks, boxes, or other symbols 14: 16010: 13797: 13762: 13394: 11105: 8388: 8347: 8325: 8303: 8277: 8058: 8001: 7934: 7901: 7860: 7840:The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy 7798: 7671: 7652: 7352: 7306: 7253: 7229: 7217: 7205: 7201: 7125: 7101: 7014: 6987: 6975: 6963: 6959: 6947: 6872: 6836: 6800: 6788: 6776: 6764: 6752: 6740: 6728: 6716: 6704: 6692: 6680: 6668: 6656: 6632: 6620: 6608: 6596: 6572: 6560: 6548: 6536: 6524: 6455: 6298: 6286:The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language 6209:Protection of the Varieties of Chinese 5686:creating its own simplified characters 4737:; 'dashing-leaping') for ' 4509:Translation of neologisms into Chinese 3619: 2956:in certain varieties), preceded by an 1942:Classical and vernacular written forms 1649:, Middle Chinese went through several 1412: 1201: 1195: 1082: 861: 746: 15854: 15356:Southern Peninsular Malaysian Hokkien 14510: 14082: 13455: 13368: 12253: 11312: 11079: 11066: 9017: 8194: 8020: 7997:from the original on 10 October 2022. 7980: 7436: 7379: 5800:Comparison of Mandarin romanizations 5524: 5501:derived from Chinese characters. The 5430:('one') is pronounced as 4513:Transcription into Chinese characters 3301:Examples of Standard Cantonese tones 3265: 2972:consonant; a syllable also carries a 2909:Varieties of Chinese § Phonology 1552:, of which the most spoken by far is 9043: 8937:(blog): Language Borrowing (topic). 8532: 8213: 8039: 7407: 7241: 7188: 6896: 6497: 4719:) for the video game character ' 4454: 4450: 4285:), and perhaps 'horse' ( 4075:All varieties of modern Chinese are 2115:Adoption of Chinese literary culture 1829:. The next attested stage came from 1687:is an official language of both the 34:. For other languages in China, see 12254: 8959: 8930:"Why So Little Chinese in English?" 8670:An Introduction to Sociolinguistics 8120: 7677:A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology 7653:Bailey, Charles James Nice (1973). 7113: 6291:Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson. 6110:Yang Lingfu, former curator of the 4527:international scientific vocabulary 3125:Examples of Standard Chinese tones 2715: 1703:. Standard Chinese is based on the 24: 8809: 8603:Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 8261:Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar 8169: 8162:Ethnologue: Languages of the World 7565:"How hard is it to learn Chinese?" 7336:Timothy Uy and Jim Hsia, Editors, 7089: 6424: 5509:and was previously written in the 3109: 3049:system much like modern Japanese. 2672:, previously included in Mandarin. 1604:and certain divergent dialects of 523:Map of the Chinese-speaking world 25: 16074: 8987: 8947:from the original on 20 June 2013 8818:"The Characters That Built China" 7062: 6154:Chinese computational linguistics 6133:(HSK), comparable to the English 5376: 5129:'third generation of cell phones' 4670:; 'internet logbook') 4385:) and 'bodhisattva' ( 3793:Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den 1730: 15995: 15983: 15971: 15959: 15947: 15616:Malay trade and creole languages 11048: 10526:Literary and colloquial readings 10398: 8769:10.2752/175470710X12593419555126 8649:Wakefield, John C., ed. (2019). 8023:Social Anthropology and Language 7920:10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00061.x 7908:Language and Linguistics Compass 6441: 5537:Chinese character classification 5122: 4941:) was borrowed from Italian 4693:; 'hamburger') from 4582:; 'electric vision') 4565: 4459: 3808: 3609: 3280: 3269: 3092: 3083: 3074: 3065: 2367: 2355: 2343: 2329: 2322: 2315: 1831:inscriptions on bronze artifacts 1524:Ying, a speaker of Henan Chinese 14571:comparison with British English 8289:. University of Chicago Press. 8044:. North Clarendon, VT: Tuttle. 7655:Variation and linguistic theory 7611: 7595: 7557: 7517: 7499: 7493: 7470: 7442: 7413: 7343: 7330: 7312: 7271: 7194: 7056: 6401: 6384: 6361: 6349: 5706: 5594:; 'mountain'), and 4603:; 'electric brain') 2823: 2262: 2247:English words of Chinese origin 1889:Northern and Southern dynasties 1782:History of the Chinese language 1697:official languages of Singapore 1612:. All varieties of Chinese are 1266:Second alternative Chinese name 1254: 1230: 1191: 1177: 1163: 1149: 1128: 1105: 921: 888: 857: 841: 827: 813: 792: 769: 528: Majority Chinese-speaking 38:. For different varieties, see 8847:, University of Hawaii Press, 8558:A History of Korean Literature 8541:. Cambridge University Press. 8393:. Princeton University Press. 8170:Li, Siok-Hong (1 March 2010). 7749:11858/00-001M-0000-0013-1A8D-4 6465: 6390:A distinction is made between 6381:, used with personal pronouns. 6377: 6372: 6368: 6274: 6259: 6238: 6229: 6220: 6184:Chinese word-segmented writing 5995: 5991: 5965: 5961: 5909: 5905: 5853: 5849: 5823: 5819: 5730: 5725: 5721: 5620: 5610: 5600: 5590: 5580: 5570: 5356: 5351: 5347: 5322: 5290: 5285: 5267: 5258: 5226: 5221: 5204: 5195: 5164: 5159: 5140: 5126: 5116: 5111: 5107: 5099: 5089: 5079: 5069: 5059: 5054: 5050: 5005: 4999: 4994: 4990: 4985: 4971: 4966: 4962: 4957: 4952: 4948: 4937: 4927: 4922: 4918: 4913: 4881: 4877: 4872: 4867: 4863: 4858: 4848: 4843: 4839: 4834: 4829: 4825: 4820: 4810: 4805: 4801: 4796: 4791: 4787: 4782: 4772: 4751: 4746: 4742: 4733: 4728: 4724: 4715: 4710: 4706: 4694: 4689: 4684: 4680: 4666: 4661: 4657: 4641: 4636: 4632: 4620: 4615: 4611: 4599: 4594: 4590: 4578: 4573: 4569: 4559: 4554: 4550: 4534: 4530: 4443: 4433: 4395: 4390: 4386: 4381: 4371: 4366: 4362: 4357: 4351:), 'pomegranate' ( 4347: 4333: 4328: 4324: 4319: 4309: 4304: 4300: 4295: 4290: 4286: 4281: 4276: 4272: 4267: 4166:subject–verb–object word order 4157: 4152: 4148: 4143: 4138: 4134: 4125: 4068: 4063: 4059: 4054: 4049: 4045: 4040: 4035: 4031: 4017: 4012: 4008: 4003: 3993: 3979: 3969: 3959: 3949: 3944: 3940: 3935: 3890: 3886: 3869: 3865: 3848: 3844: 3827: 3823: 3737: 3733: 3685: 3681: 3657: 3653: 3589: 3579: 3440: 3436: 3337: 3333: 3260: 3256: 3231: 3227: 3204: 3200: 3154: 3150: 2856: 2851: 2847: 2842: 2793: 2770: 2765: 2761: 2756: 2751: 2747: 2742: 2737: 2207:, but later replaced with the 2090: 2085: 2081: 2072: 2067: 2063: 2047: 2042: 2038: 1487:spoken natively by the ethnic 1479: 1459: 1450: 1442: 1411: 1397: 1381: 1367: 1348: 1347: 1333: 1293: 1277: 1081: 1067: 1053: 1037: 1023: 1004: 1003: 989: 944: 745: 731: 717: 701: 687: 668: 667: 653: 610: 594: 13: 1: 8964:. New York: Riverhead Books. 8514:Shibatani, Masayoshi (1990). 8352:. Routledge. pp. 72–83. 8077:10.4000/chinaperspectives.442 8025:. Routledge. pp. 47–92. 7957:10.1525/aa.1966.68.4.02a00040 7804:"A Brief History of Mandarin" 7679:. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 7604:"汉语水平考试中心:2005年外国考生总人数近12万", 6413: 6407:Hong Kong and Macau Cantonese 6244:Mandarin, Hakka, and Hokkien. 6159:Chinese exclamative particles 6102:Chinese as a foreign language 6064:Other phonetic transcriptions 5073:; 'hacker'), and 5029:; 'gay people'), 4624:; 'hand machine') 4195: 2736:of China (where it is called 2684:, previously included in Yue. 2133:, a Korean collection of the 2004:around the capital. The 1324 1962:Classical or Literary Chinese 1819: 1810:Reconstruction of Old Chinese 1641:. The phonetic categories of 1635: 132:1.35 billion (2017–2022) 11054:List of varieties of Chinese 8801:(Press release). 6 May 2019. 7879:10.1080/01434632.2010.509507 7529:(in Chinese). Archived from 7454:(in Chinese). Archived from 7278:Terrell, Peter, ed. (2005). 6418: 5444: 5438: 5432: 5093:; 'hacker') and 4545: 4323:), and 'goose' ( 4248: 4058:; 'goalkeeper', and 3913: 3896: 3875: 3854: 3833: 3798: 3777: 3770: 3753: 3746: 3725: 3718: 3701: 3694: 3673: 3666: 3645: 3638: 3516: 3509: 3486: 3479: 3456: 3449: 3422: 3415: 3392: 3385: 3353: 3346: 3275: 3240: 3213: 3186: 3163: 3104: 3054: 3000:, the retroflex approximant 2905:Historical Chinese phonology 2894: 2678:, previously included in Wu. 2443:and Taiwan according to the 2301: 2108: 1737:Sino-Tibetan language family 1647:Northern and Southern period 397:National Languages Committee 7: 8845:Asia's Orthographic Dilemma 8843:Hannas, William C. (1997), 8751:Zimmermann, Basile (2010). 8412:. Oxford University Press. 7940:"Dialect, Language, Nation" 7844:University of Hawaiʻi Press 6140: 6034: 6027: 6008: 6001: 5978: 5971: 5948: 5941: 5922: 5915: 5892: 5885: 5866: 5859: 5836: 5829: 5789: 5783: 5777: 5448:in Hokkien, a form of Min. 5368: 5340: 5168:('cell phone') 5039:; 'taxi'), and 5003:; 'cola'), and 4776:), and 'Paris' becomes 4645:; 'blue tooth') 4539: 4361:), and 'lion' ( 4023: 3603: 3597:. As an example, the small 2439:Range of dialect groups in 2430: 2217: 2209: 1915: 1837:period (1046–771 BCE), the 1528:Chinese languages form the 1493:many minority ethnic groups 76: 62: 10: 16079: 11012:Taiwanese Phonetic Symbols 9000:Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks 8688:Wilkinson, Endymion Porter 8389:Ramsey, S. Robert (1987). 8350:The Sino-Tibetan languages 7861:Groves, Julie May (2010). 7645: 6473:"Summary by language size" 6116:Civil Affairs Staging Area 6099: 5710: 5534: 5528: 5453:written vernacular Chinese 5380: 5207:'Cost, Insurance, Freight' 5199:; 'industry') 5019:; 'cartoon'), 4894:; 'sofa') and 4506: 3538: 3532: 3528: 2901:Standard Chinese phonology 2898: 2860:; 'local speech'. 2725: 2719: 2539:, including Cantonese and 2305: 2112: 2060:standard national language 1970:written vernacular Chinese 1952:Written vernacular Chinese 1945: 1807: 1797: 1779: 1775: 1695:(Taiwan), one of the four 1689:People's Republic of China 29: 27:National language of China 15889: 15834: 15809: 15786: 15777: 15722:comparison with Malaysian 15672: 15646: 15591: 15571: 15533: 15468: 15401: 15277: 15268: 14884: 14689: 14673: 14659: 14585: 14544: 14496:Singaporean Sign Language 14488: 14428: 14363: 14296: 14241: 14234: 14193: 14174: 14139: 14123: 14116: 13996: 13980: 13962: 13909: 13886: 13861: 13838: 13829: 13806: 13788: 13753: 13721: 13695: 13630: 13553: 13537: 13507: 13489: 13423: 13402: 13336: 13309:Southern (Shanghai) Sign 13294: 13223: 13167: 12971: 12909: 12862: 12819: 12781: 12666: 12588: 12579: 12511: 12474: 12361: 12352: 12264: 12260: 12249: 12190: 12092: 11974: 11900: 11747: 11629: 11441: 11432: 11384: 11336: 11325: 11321: 11308: 11301: 11281: 11188: 11136: 11129: 11113: 11073: 11068:Links to related articles 11046: 10930: 10899: 10810: 10735: 10677: 10597: 10572: 10534: 10481: 10407: 10396: 10343: 10295: 10250: 10227: 10172: 10163: 10101: 10020: 9995: 9977: 9954: 9891: 9882: 9845: 9822: 9784: 9775: 9766: 9702: 9662: 9589: 9567: 9539: 9521: 9495: 9472: 9408: 9399: 9376: 9346: 9323: 9247: 9187: 9159: 9136: 9113: 9080: 9071: 9062: 9051: 8692:Chinese History: A Manual 8672:. John Wiley & Sons. 8632:What is sociolinguistics? 8630:Van Herk, Gerard (2012). 8408:Romaine, Suzanne (1994). 7722:Chappell, Hilary (2008). 7618:Liu lili (27 June 2011). 7479:粤语:中国最强方言是如何炼成的_私家历史_澎湃新闻 7266:Matthews & Yip (1994) 6395: 6391: 6323: 6280:Various examples include: 6254: 6189:Classical Chinese grammar 6021: 5935: 5879: 5632: 5628: 5615: 5605: 5595: 5585: 5575: 5565: 5545: 5464: 5460: 5427: 5362: 5334: 5317: 5299: 5253: 5235: 5190: 5173: 5135: 5094: 5084: 5074: 5064: 5040: 5030: 5020: 5010: 4980: 4932: 4908: 4895: 4885: 4853: 4815: 4777: 4767: 4698: 4438: 4428: 4408: 4404: 4376: 4352: 4342: 4314: 4262: 4120: 4107:. They make heavy use of 3998: 3988: 3984: 3974: 3964: 3954: 3930: 3907: 3803: 3761: 3709: 3629: 3584: 3574: 3500: 3496: 3470: 3466: 3432: 3406: 3402: 3376: 3372: 3329: 3324: 3319: 3314: 3311: 3308: 3305: 3250: 3223: 3219:low falling, then rising 3196: 3177: 3173: 3146: 3141: 3138: 3135: 3132: 3129: 2837: 2289: 2273: 2257: 2162:Sino-Xenic pronunciations 2146:period of Chinese control 1980:Rise of northern dialects 1474: 1425: 1404: 1390: 1374: 1360: 1340: 1326: 1319: 1314: 1310: 1302: 1286: 1270: 1265: 1244: 1237: 1220: 1213: 1184: 1170: 1156: 1142: 1135: 1121: 1114: 1098: 1091: 1074: 1060: 1046: 1030: 1016: 996: 982: 975: 970: 966: 955: 945: 937: 932: 911: 904: 878: 871: 850: 834: 820: 806: 799: 785: 778: 762: 755: 738: 724: 710: 694: 680: 660: 646: 639: 634: 630: 619: 603: 587: 583: 578: 546: 516: 500: 484: 448: 430: 425: 391:State Language Commission 380: 366: 346:Official language in 344: 339: 287: 226: 203: 168: 136: 126: 85: 54: 49: 15841:Nearly extinct languages 8927:R. L. G. (6 June 2013). 8910:University of California 8872:10.1017/CBO9781139166935 8495:Schüssler, Axel (2007). 8140:Kurpaska, Maria (2010). 8059:Klöter, Henning (2004). 7983: 7777: 7525: 7510: 7502: 7486: 7478: 7450: 7422: 7204:, p. 11), cited in 7063:何, 信翰 (10 August 2019). 6539:, pp. 422, 434–436. 6344:Monosyllabism in English 6214: 6112:National Museum of China 5574:; 'human'), 5387:Mainland Chinese Braille 4989:; 'disco'), 4904:; 'motor'). 4838:; 'logic'), 4824:; 'humor'), 4814:; 'motor'), 4523:a combination of the two 4182:serial verb construction 3987:; 'quartz', and 3039: 2796:; 'Taiwanese'), 2732:Standard Chinese is the 2150:Four Commanderies of Han 1966:Spring and Autumn period 1857:phonology of Old Chinese 1629:oracle bone inscriptions 1288:Traditional Chinese 933:Alternative Chinese name 859:Cantonese pronunciation: 605:Traditional Chinese 417:Promote Mandarin Council 15794:Malaysian Sign Language 13306:Northern (Beijing) Sign 8994:Classical Chinese texts 8711:Language Atlas of China 8461:10.1073/pnas.1817972116 8121:Kuo, Yun-Hsuan (2005). 7981:Huang Hua (黃華) (2014). 7944:American Anthropologist 7694:Campbell, Lyle (2008), 7370:Ulenbrook, Jan (1967), 7359:Encyclopædia Britannica 6813:Zhang & Yang (2004) 6324:《汉语在语言系属分类中相当于一个语族的地位。》 5999: 5990: 5775:than they will be with 5713:Romanization of Chinese 5063:; 'fans'), 4800:; 'sofa'), 4703:phono-semantic matching 4488:less pertinent examples 4271:), 'lion' ( 4147:; 'still', and 4089:grammatical inflections 4085:inflectional morphology 4044:; 'hamburger', 3293:were considered to be " 2662:Language Atlas of China 2659:, which is used in the 2445:Language Atlas of China 2119:Sino-Xenic vocabularies 1770:Tibeto-Burman languages 1602:Central Plains Mandarin 1272:Simplified Chinese 589:Simplified Chinese 16048:Languages of Singapore 16038:Languages of Hong Kong 15822:Selangor Sign Language 14941:Bruneian/Kedayan Malay 14746:Kelantan-Pattani Malay 14110:Languages of Singapore 11315:Sino-Tibetan languages 8996:– Chinese Text Project 8516:The Languages of Japan 8391:The Languages of China 8002:Hudson, R. A. (1996). 7067:. 自由時報. Archived from 6119: 6048:Other systems include 5747:Christian missionaries 5735: 5669:Traditional characters 5584:; 'Sun'), 5549: 5411: 5144:; 'three') 4943: 4762:Foreign words, mainly 4697:; 'Hamburg' + 4313:), 'dog' ( 4299:), 'pig' ( 3117: 3004:, and voiceless stops 2922: 2655:The classification of 2447: 2225: 2137: 2135:Chinese Buddhist canon 1984:After the fall of the 1931:borrowed Chinese words 1794:Old and Middle Chinese 1753:Southeast Asian Massif 1721:Traditional characters 1623:The earliest attested 1594:Lower Yangtze Mandarin 1542:mutual intelligibility 1525: 548:This article contains 15061:Kota Marudu Talantang 14791:Negeri Sembilan Malay 14538:Languages of Malaysia 14068:Yilan Creole Japanese 8864:The Syntax of Chinese 8533:Sohn, Ho-Min (2001). 8368:Pulleyblank, Edwin G. 8285:The Japanese Language 8195:Liang, Sihua (2015). 8172:"台、華語接觸所引起的台語語音的變化趨勢" 8040:Kane, Daniel (2006). 7740:10.1515/LITY.2008.032 6825:Sohn & Lee (2003) 6319:Encyclopedia of China 6135:Cambridge Certificate 6131:Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi 6109: 6096:As a foreign language 5749:in the 16th century. 5720: 5673:Simplified characters 5544: 5436:in Standard Chinese, 5398: 4427:etymologies, such as 4161:; 'already'. 4109:grammatical particles 3963:; 'plaster', 3607:in Standard Chinese: 3116: 2920: 2899:Further information: 2802:Austronesian language 2438: 2126: 1882:grammatical particles 1808:Further information: 1717:simplified characters 1699:, and one of the six 1586:Southwestern Mandarin 1534:Sino-Tibetan language 1523: 413:Ministry of Education 401:Hakka Affairs Council 15817:Penang Sign Language 15799:Manually Coded Malay 14175:Indigenous languages 13972:Taiwan Sign Language 9006:20 July 2011 at the 8311:. Routledge–Curzon. 8226:Sino-Platonic Papers 7902:Handel, Zev (2008). 7392:Sino-Platonic Papers 7286:. Langenscheidt KG. 6962:, pp. 189–191; 6743:, pp. 133, 247. 6458:, pp. 211–214; 6269:Varieties of Chinese 6169:Chinese language law 5631:, a reduced form of 4242:Xiandai Hanyu Cidian 4239:The 2016 edition of 4072:; 'e-mail'. 3983:; 'grotto', 3839:'actual-connection' 2308:Varieties of Chinese 1927:varieties of Chinese 1874:derivational affixes 1843:and portions of the 1725:communities overseas 1639: 1250 BCE 863:[hɔ̄ːn.jy̬ː] 16053:Languages of Taiwan 16028:Isolating languages 15300:Malaysian Cantonese 15056:Klias River Kadazan 14235:Immigrant languages 13483:Languages of Taiwan 13349:NM = Inner Mongolia 8537:The Korean Language 8452:2019PNAS..11610317S 8446:(21): 10317–10322. 7728:Linguistic Typology 7458:on 15 February 2020 7355:"Chinese languages" 6887:, pp. 120–121. 6779:, pp. 540–541. 6767:, pp. 549–550. 6635:, pp. 181–183. 6575:, pp. 183–185. 6394:; 'he' and 6179:Chinese punctuation 5801: 5781:(pinyin), and with 5650:Chinese calligraphy 4484:improve the article 3541:Chinese classifiers 3302: 3126: 2833:language identity. 2806:languages of Taiwan 2708:spoken in northern 2241:Vietnamese alphabet 2198:Sino-Japanese words 1976:beginning in 1919. 1974:May Fourth Movement 1631:created during the 1590:Xuanzhou Wu Chinese 1447:traditional Chinese 1172:Canton Romanization 836:Canton Romanization 368:Recognised minority 186:Eastern Han Chinese 16043:Languages of Macau 16033:Languages of China 16023:Analytic languages 15647:Mixed & Others 15389:Malaysian Mandarin 13816:Taiwanese Mandarin 13396:Languages of Macau 12886:Formosan languages 11107:Languages of China 11007:Cantonese Bopomofo 10874:Chinese characters 10802:Written Sichuanese 9386:Zhangjiakou–Hohhot 8960:Tsu, Jing (2022). 8757:Design and Culture 8432:Jacques, Guillaume 8305:Miyake, Marc Hideo 8279:Miller, Roy Andrew 8199:. Cham: Springer. 8065:China Perspectives 7778:中国语言地图集(第2版):汉语方言卷 7708:10.1353/lan.0.0054 7673:Baxter, William H. 7608:, 16 January 2006. 7606:Xinhua News Agency 7376:proposes 57 items. 7003:Wurm et al. 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2475:Dungan language 2473:, and also the 2467:Beijing dialect 2433: 2388:The sinologist 2386: 2385: 2384: 2383: 2379: 2377: 2374: 2372: 2368: 2365: 2362: 2360: 2356: 2353: 2350: 2348: 2344: 2341: 2338: 2336: 2334: 2330: 2327: 2320: 2310: 2304: 2288:from Cantonese 2272:from Cantonese 2121: 2111: 1982: 1954: 1946:Main articles: 1944: 1823: 1250 BCE 1822: 1812: 1806: 1798:Main articles: 1796: 1784: 1778: 1733: 1705:Beijing dialect 1679:Nanjing dialect 1677:, based on the 1661:rime dictionary 1638: 1625:written Chinese 1510: 1431: 1392:Tongyong Pinyin 1382: 1362:Gwoyeu Romatzyh 1350: 1303:Literal meaning 1207: 1106: 1048:Tongyong Pinyin 1038: 1018:Gwoyeu Romatzyh 1006: 956:Literal meaning 898: 858: 842: 770: 712:Tongyong Pinyin 702: 682:Gwoyeu Romatzyh 670: 620:Literal meaning 554:Without proper 542: 541: 537: 535: 531: 529: 525: 508: 492: 485: 470: 469: 468: 457: 456: 449: 439: 438: 431: 421: 376: 371: 369: 362: 347: 340:Official status 335: 326:Chinese Braille 294: 289: 222: 206: 199: 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1372: 1371: 1364: 1358: 1357: 1344: 1338: 1337: 1330: 1324: 1323: 1317: 1316: 1315:Transcriptions 1308: 1307: 1304: 1300: 1299: 1290: 1284: 1283: 1274: 1268: 1267: 1263: 1262: 1259: 1258: 1251: 1242: 1241: 1235: 1234: 1227: 1218: 1217: 1211: 1210: 1206: 1205: 1199: 1192: 1188: 1182: 1181: 1174: 1168: 1167: 1160: 1154: 1153: 1146: 1140: 1139: 1137:Yue: Cantonese 1133: 1132: 1125: 1119: 1118: 1112: 1111: 1102: 1096: 1095: 1089: 1088: 1078: 1072: 1071: 1064: 1058: 1057: 1050: 1044: 1043: 1034: 1028: 1027: 1020: 1014: 1013: 1000: 994: 993: 986: 980: 979: 973: 972: 971:Transcriptions 964: 963: 957: 953: 952: 941: 935: 934: 930: 929: 926: 925: 918: 909: 908: 902: 901: 897: 896: 893: 889: 885: 876: 875: 869: 868: 854: 848: 847: 838: 832: 831: 824: 818: 817: 810: 804: 803: 801:Yue: Cantonese 797: 796: 789: 783: 782: 776: 775: 766: 760: 759: 753: 752: 742: 736: 735: 728: 722: 721: 714: 708: 707: 698: 692: 691: 684: 678: 677: 664: 658: 657: 650: 644: 643: 637: 636: 635:Transcriptions 628: 627: 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14824: 14822: 14819: 14817: 14814: 14812: 14809: 14807: 14806:Orang Seletar 14804: 14802: 14799: 14797: 14794: 14792: 14789: 14787: 14784: 14782: 14779: 14777: 14774: 14772: 14769: 14767: 14764: 14762: 14759: 14757: 14754: 14752: 14749: 14747: 14744: 14742: 14739: 14737: 14734: 14732: 14729: 14727: 14724: 14722: 14719: 14717: 14714: 14712: 14709: 14707: 14704: 14702: 14699: 14698: 14696: 14694: 14688: 14682: 14679: 14678: 14676: 14672: 14669: 14667: 14662: 14658: 14650: 14647: 14646: 14645: 14642: 14638: 14635: 14633: 14630: 14628: 14625: 14623: 14620: 14618: 14615: 14613: 14612:North Bornean 14610: 14609: 14608: 14605: 14601: 14598: 14597: 14596: 14595:Austroasiatic 14593: 14592: 14590: 14588: 14584: 14572: 14569: 14568: 14567: 14564: 14562: 14559: 14558: 14556: 14554: 14550: 14547: 14543: 14539: 14532: 14527: 14525: 14520: 14518: 14513: 14512: 14509: 14497: 14494: 14493: 14491: 14487: 14477: 14474: 14472: 14469: 14467: 14464: 14462: 14459: 14457: 14454: 14452: 14449: 14447: 14444: 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12826: 12824: 12822: 12818: 12812: 12809: 12807: 12804: 12802: 12799: 12797: 12794: 12792: 12789: 12788: 12786: 12784: 12780: 12770: 12767: 12765: 12762: 12760: 12757: 12755: 12752: 12750: 12747: 12745: 12742: 12740: 12737: 12735: 12732: 12730: 12727: 12725: 12722: 12720: 12717: 12715: 12712: 12710: 12707: 12705: 12702: 12700: 12697: 12695: 12692: 12690: 12687: 12685: 12682: 12680: 12677: 12675: 12672: 12671: 12669: 12665: 12659: 12656: 12654: 12651: 12649: 12646: 12644: 12641: 12639: 12636: 12634: 12631: 12629: 12626: 12624: 12621: 12619: 12616: 12614: 12611: 12609: 12606: 12604: 12601: 12599: 12596: 12595: 12593: 12591: 12587: 12584: 12582: 12578: 12572: 12569: 12567: 12564: 12562: 12559: 12557: 12554: 12552: 12549: 12547: 12544: 12542: 12539: 12537: 12536:Eastern Yugur 12534: 12532: 12529: 12527: 12524: 12522: 12519: 12518: 12516: 12514: 12510: 12500: 12497: 12495: 12492: 12490: 12487: 12485: 12482: 12481: 12479: 12477: 12473: 12467: 12464: 12462: 12459: 12457: 12456:Small Flowery 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Routledge. 8262: 8258: 8257:Yip, Virginia 8254: 8250: 8235: 8231: 8227: 8220: 8216: 8212: 8208: 8202: 8198: 8193: 8181: 8177: 8173: 8168: 8164: 8163: 8157: 8153: 8147: 8143: 8138: 8126: 8125: 8119: 8115: 8109: 8105: 8101: 8097: 8086: 8082: 8078: 8074: 8070: 8066: 8062: 8057: 8053: 8047: 8043: 8038: 8034: 8028: 8024: 8019: 8015: 8009: 8005: 8000: 7993: 7986: 7979: 7975: 7971: 7967: 7963: 7958: 7953: 7949: 7945: 7941: 7937: 7936:Haugen, Einar 7933: 7929: 7925: 7921: 7917: 7913: 7909: 7905: 7900: 7896: 7892: 7888: 7884: 7880: 7876: 7872: 7868: 7864: 7859: 7855: 7849: 7845: 7841: 7837: 7833: 7829: 7825: 7821: 7817: 7813: 7809: 7805: 7801: 7797: 7793: 7787: 7783: 7776: 7771: 7767: 7763: 7759: 7755: 7750: 7745: 7741: 7737: 7733: 7729: 7725: 7720: 7717: 7713: 7709: 7705: 7701: 7697: 7692: 7688: 7682: 7678: 7674: 7670: 7666: 7660: 7656: 7651: 7650: 7629: 7625: 7621: 7614: 7607: 7598: 7592:, p. 45. 7591: 7586: 7570: 7566: 7560: 7553: 7548: 7532: 7528: 7520: 7513:(in Chinese). 7509: 7505: 7496: 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6886: 6881: 6874: 6873:Miyake (2004) 6869: 6863:, p. 67. 6862: 6857: 6850: 6845: 6838: 6837:Miller (1967) 6833: 6827:, p. 23. 6826: 6821: 6814: 6809: 6802: 6801:Norman (1988) 6797: 6790: 6789:Ramsey (1987) 6785: 6778: 6777:Coblin (2000) 6773: 6766: 6765:Coblin (2000) 6761: 6754: 6753:Norman (1988) 6749: 6742: 6741:Norman (1988) 6737: 6730: 6729:Norman (1988) 6725: 6718: 6717:Norman (1988) 6713: 6707:, p. 48. 6706: 6705:Norman (1988) 6701: 6695:, p. 24. 6694: 6693:Norman (1988) 6689: 6682: 6681:Norman (1988) 6677: 6670: 6669:Ramsey (1987) 6665: 6658: 6657:Baxter (1992) 6653: 6647:, p. 12. 6646: 6641: 6634: 6633:Baxter (1992) 6629: 6622: 6621:Baxter (1992) 6617: 6610: 6609:Norman (1988) 6605: 6598: 6597:Baxter (1992) 6593: 6586: 6581: 6574: 6573:Norman (1988) 6569: 6562: 6561:Handel (2008) 6557: 6550: 6549:Handel (2008) 6545: 6538: 6537:Handel (2008) 6533: 6526: 6525:Norman (1988) 6521: 6514: 6509: 6507: 6499: 6494: 6478: 6474: 6468: 6461: 6457: 6456:Norman (1988) 6452: 6444: 6438: 6437: 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simplified
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China
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Malaysia
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Jin
Wu
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Xiang
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