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5756:, introduced in 1956 by the PRC, and later adopted by Singapore and Taiwan. Pinyin is almost universally employed now for teaching standard spoken Chinese in schools and universities across the Americas, Australia, and Europe. Chinese parents also use Pinyin to teach their children the sounds and tones of new words. In school books that teach Chinese, the pinyin romanization is often shown below a picture of the thing the word represents, with the Chinese character alongside.
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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:
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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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1518:
1517:
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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.
2195:
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
5372:
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
1519:
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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
2105:, Cantonese is the dominant spoken language due to cultural influence from Guangdong immigrants and colonial-era policies, and is used in education, media, formal speech, and everyday life—though Mandarin is increasingly taught in schools due to the mainland's growing influence.
4862:; 'hysterics'). The bulk of these words were originally coined in Shanghai during the early 20th century and later loaned from there into Mandarin, hence their Mandarin pronunciations occasionally being quite divergent from the English. For example, in Shanghainese
1520:
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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
5346:, 'Japanese-made Chinese', and many of these words have been re-loaned into modern Chinese. Other terms were coined by the Japanese by giving new senses to existing Chinese terms or by referring to expressions used in classical Chinese literature. For example,
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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
5699:. The PRC defines literacy amongst workers as a knowledge of 2,000 characters, though this would be only functional literacy. School children typically learn around 2,000 characters whereas scholars may memorize up to 10,000. A large unabridged dictionary like the
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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.
1933:
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.
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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
5767:, it may be particularly helpful for beginner Chinese speakers of an English-speaking background. Wade–Giles was found in academic use in the United States, particularly before the 1980s, and was widely used in Taiwan until 2009.
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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.
5745:. There are many systems of romanization for the Chinese varieties, due to the lack of a native phonetic transcription until modern times. Chinese is first known to have been written in Latin characters by Western
2396:, in which differences in speech generally become more pronounced as distances increase, though the rate of change varies immensely. Generally, mountainous South China exhibits more linguistic diversity than the
7364:
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.
5671:, used in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and many overseas Chinese-speaking communities, largely take their form from received character forms dating back to the late Han dynasty and standardized during the Ming.
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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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6253:"Chinese" refers collectively to the various language varieties that have descended from Old Chinese: native speakers often consider these to be "dialects" of a single language—though the Chinese term
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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
1755:. Although the relationship was first proposed in the early 19th century and is now broadly accepted, reconstruction of Sino-Tibetan is much less developed than that of families such as
2055:
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
4180:, another trait shared with neighboring languages such as Japanese and Korean. Other notable grammatical features common to all the spoken varieties of Chinese include the use of
5564:, compound ideographs, phonetic loans, phonetic compounds, and derivative characters. Only 4% were categorized as pictographs, including many of the simplest characters, such as
2380:
4529:, wherein the Latin and Greek components are usually converted one-for-one into the corresponding Chinese characters. The word 'telephone' was initially loaned phonetically as
2231:
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
9278:
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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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5703:
dictionary, contains over 40,000 characters, including obscure, variant, rare, and archaic characters; fewer than a quarter of these characters are now commonly used.
6288:(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), p. 312. "The mutual unintelligibility of the varieties is the main ground for referring to them as separate languages."
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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:
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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
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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
2076:), was adopted. After much dispute between proponents of northern and southern dialects and an abortive attempt at an artificial pronunciation, the
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3562:, especially with basic vocabulary. However, most nouns, adjectives, and verbs in modern Mandarin are disyllabic. A significant cause of this is
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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
2094:; 'common speech'. The national language is now used in education, the media, and formal situations in both mainland China and Taiwan.
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3802:. As such, most of these words have been replaced in speech, if not in writing, with less ambiguous disyllabic compounds. Only the first one,
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2784:; if they grew up elsewhere, they are also likely fluent in the dialect of their home region. In addition to Standard Chinese, a majority of
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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.
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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.
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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
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Chinese had no uniform system of phonetic transcription until the mid-20th century, although enunciation patterns were recorded in early
6295:(1989), p. 2. "The Chinese language family is genetically classified as an independent branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family."
2235:, and kana. Korean is written exclusively with hangul in North Korea, although knowledge of the supplementary Chinese characters called
9035:
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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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4701:('bun'). Sometimes translations are designed so that they sound like the original while incorporating Chinese morphemes (
7863:"Language or dialect, topolect or regiolect? A comparative study of language attitudes towards the status of Cantonese in Hong Kong"
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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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5675:, introduced by the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1954 to promote mass literacy, simplifies most complex traditional
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6398:; 'she' in writing, but this was only introduced in the 20th century—both characters remain exactly homophonous.
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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,
1968:. Its use in writing remained nearly universal until the late 19th century, culminating with the widespread adoption of
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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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11286:
4210:, a compendium of Chinese characters, includes 54,678 head entries for characters, including oracle bone versions. The
4087:(changes in the form of a word), to indicate a word's function within a sentence. In other words, Chinese has very few
17:
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Since the 20th century, another source of words has been kanji: Japan re-molded European concepts and inventions into
2051:; 'language of officials'. For most of this period, this language was a koiné based on dialects spoken in the
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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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2423:, whereas Taishan is to Guangzhou's southwest, with the two cities separated by several river valleys. In parts of
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The colloquial layers of many varieties, particularly Min varieties, reflect features that predate Middle Chinese.
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4563:; 'electric speech'), built out of native Chinese morphemes became prevalent. Other examples include
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8102:(2011). "A transnational approach to East Asian book history". In Chakravorty, Swapan; Gupta, Abhijit (eds.).
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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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2022:, this dictionary describes a language with many of the features characteristic of modern Mandarin dialects.
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8434:; Lai, Yunfan; Ryder, Robin J.; Thouzeau, Valentin; Greenhill, Simon J.; List, Johann-Mattis (21 May 2019).
5734:; 'National language' written in traditional and simplified forms, followed by various romanizations
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that is still widely used in Taiwan to aid standard pronunciation. There are also at least two systems of
5635:; 'water'. Almost all characters created since have been made using this format. The 18th-century
5009:('miniskirt'). Contemporary colloquial Cantonese has distinct loanwords from English, such as
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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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4230:, records more than 23,000 head Chinese characters and gives over 370,000 definitions. The 1999 revised
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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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14225:
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13820:
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13134:
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10711:
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10181:
10071:
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Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
8897:
8518:. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6953:
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4338:
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2809:
2777:
2709:
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2416:
2098:
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1935:
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1581:
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502:
486:
450:
432:
117:
112:
90:
8709:
Wurm, Stephen Adolphe; Li, Rong; Baumann, Theo; Lee, Mei W. (1987).
8614:
6346:; London, p. 15 for a count of over 8000 syllables for English.
4253:
Like many other languages, Chinese has absorbed a sizable number of
2123:
1814:
The earliest examples of Old Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on
15948:
15658:
15610:
14220:
13117:
11001:
10587:
10228:
9409:
9013:
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5506:
5505:, considered by many a dialect of Mandarin, is nowadays written in
5479:
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5395:
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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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821:
661:
567:
305:
107:
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8866:, Cambridge Syntax Guides, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
8159:
Lewis, M. Paul; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2015),
7772:
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3569:
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
1544:
means they are sometimes considered to be separate languages in a
56:
15350:
13156:
10900:
10580:
10467:
10296:
9892:
8793:"Origin of Sino-Tibetan language family revealed by new research"
7338:
Webster's Digital Chinese Dictionary – Advanced Reference Edition
6147:
5898:
5553:
4738:
3769:
3745:
3717:
3665:
3637:
3058:. The tones are exemplified by the following five Chinese words:
2968:; a zero onset is also possible), and followed (optionally) by a
2681:
2646:
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2284:
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2254:
2052:
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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:
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10761:
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6998:
6996:
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4931:) were borrowed for 'ballet' and 'champagne' respectively;
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dynasties carried out the administration of the empire using a
1905:
1880:, and indicated grammatical relationships using word order and
1655:
1454:
310:
102:
8862:
Huang, Cheng-Teh James; Li, Yen-Hui Audrey; Li, Yafei (2009),
8577:
International Handbook of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
7620:"Chinese language proficiency test becoming popular in Mexico"
6530:
5641:
classified characters under a now-common set of 214 radicals.
5431:
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3274:
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3212:
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3162:
3103:
3053:
2016:
verse form in this language. Together with the slightly later
2010:
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.
1253:
920:
15447:
14337:
10472:
8999:
7320:"Languages - Real Chinese - Mini-guides - Chinese characters"
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Examples of Chinese words of more than two syllables include
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2012:
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8579:(1st ed.). New York: Greenwood Press. pp. 17–45.
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5752:
Today the most common romanization for Standard Chinese is
5483:
4723:'. This is often done for commercial purposes, for example
4420:
4416:
2869:
2218:
2030:
2026:
1735:
Linguists classify all varieties of Chinese as part of the
8333:. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge University Press.
8071:(6). Centre d'études français sur la Chine Contemporaine.
7172:
7170:
7131:
6734:
4447:), but from exactly which source is not always clear.
4119:. In Mandarin, this involves the use of particles such as
3796:
exploits this, consisting of 92 characters all pronounced
566:
characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see
8827:
7143:
7044:
7032:
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6770:
6758:
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6312:
Linguists in China often use a formulation introduced by
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1996:
dynasties in northern China, a common speech (now called
1941:
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856:
840:
826:
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8815:
8736:. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 143–161.
8410:
Language in Society: an Introduction to Sociolinguistics
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6902:
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to fewer strokes, especially by adopting common cursive
5667:
There are currently two systems for Chinese characters.
4544:
4437:), the Chinese lute, or 'cheese or yogurt' (
1768:
remains unclear. A top-level branching into Chinese and
1104:
768:
8165:(Eighteenth ed.), Dallas, Texas: SIL International
8006:(2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
7583:
7167:
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6941:
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6722:
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and dictionaries. Early Indian translators, working in
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during the Old Chinese period include 'grape' (
3693:
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6854:
6782:
6578:
5614:; 'pour'), combining a phonetic component
5367:
5339:
2929:
and also to the characters of the writing system, and
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1556:
with 66%, or around 800 million speakers, followed by
15937:
8426:
8124:
New dialect formation: the case of Taiwanese Mandarin
7867:
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
7784:] (2nd ed.). Beijing: The Commercial Press.
7775:
Zhōngguó yǔyán dìtú jí (dì 2 bǎn): Hànyǔ fāngyán juǎn
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8144:. Trends in linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
8104:
New Word Order: Transnational Themes in Book History
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7247:
7223:
7155:
6969:
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6698:
6686:
5401:
Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion
2404:, a variety of Yue from a small coastal area around
2208:
8374:. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
8042:
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:
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13387:
13373:
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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:
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6105:
6095:
6088:for Chinese. The most widespread is the
5716:
5540:
5394:
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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:
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11105:
8388:
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8303:
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7860:
7840:The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy
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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
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1201:
1195:
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861:
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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:
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3280:
3269:
3092:
3083:
3074:
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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
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7595:
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7343:
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7271:
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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
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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:
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6274:
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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:
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3770:
3753:
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3163:
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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:
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5859:
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5829:
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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:
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14673:
14659:
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14496:Singaporean Sign Language
14488:
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13309:Southern (Shanghai) Sign
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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
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2162:Sino-Xenic pronunciations
2146:period of Chinese control
1980:Rise of northern dialects
1474:
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391:State Language Commission
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366:
346:Official language in
344:
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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. (1987)
6515:, pp. 3, 125.
6500:, pp. 10, 21.
6460:Pulleyblank (1984)
6199:Languages of China
6164:Chinese honorifics
6120:
5799:
5736:
5697:mainland newspaper
5550:
5531:Chinese characters
5525:Chinese characters
5420:Chinese characters
5412:
5409:semi-cursive style
5230:; 'price'
4188:, and the related
4101:grammatical number
4077:analytic languages
3973:; 'lime',
3300:
3124:
3118:
2923:
2700:spoken in western
2448:
2406:Taishan, Guangdong
2205:Chinese characters
2138:
1866:consonant clusters
1713:Chinese characters
1576:(68 million, e.g.
1568:(74 million, e.g.
1560:(75 million, e.g.
1526:
1501:variety of Chinese
1439:simplified Chinese
301:Chinese characters
218:Standard Cantonese
176:Proto-Sino-Tibetan
36:Languages of China
18:Chinese (language)
15935:
15934:
15929:
15928:
15884:loan vocabularies
15848:
15847:
15838:Extinct languages
15830:
15829:
15587:
15586:
15264:
15263:
15096:Mainstream Kenyah
14581:
14580:
14504:
14503:
14484:
14483:
14170:
14169:
14076:
14075:
13988:Taiwanese Braille
13958:
13957:
13954:
13953:
13905:
13904:
13848:Taiwanese Hokkien
13784:
13783:
13780:
13779:
13755:Malayo-Polynesian
13749:
13748:
13449:
13448:
13362:
13361:
12905:
12904:
12901:
12900:
12897:
12896:
12890:
12882:
12874:
12777:
12776:
12507:
12506:
12245:
12244:
12241:
12240:
11970:
11969:
11966:
11965:
11297:
11296:
11060:
11059:
11042:
11041:
10869:
10868:
10787:Written Cantonese
10782:
10781:
10564:Classical grammar
10559:Cantonese grammar
10394:
10393:
10291:
10290:
10097:
10096:
10016:
10015:
9878:
9877:
9585:
9584:
9372:
9371:
9262:Chengdu–Chongqing
9055:Sinitic languages
8919:978-1-55729-071-7
8881:978-0-521-59958-0
8854:978-0-8248-1892-0
8743:978-1-4020-8038-8
8720:978-962-359-085-3
8701:978-0-674-00249-4
8679:978-1-118-73229-8
8641:978-1-4051-9319-1
8586:978-0-313-24484-1
8567:978-0-521-82858-1
8548:978-0-521-36943-5
8525:978-0-521-36918-3
8506:978-0-8248-2975-9
8419:978-0-19-875133-5
8400:978-0-691-01468-5
8381:978-0-7748-0192-8
8359:978-0-7007-1129-1
8340:978-0-521-29653-3
8318:978-0-415-30575-4
8296:978-0-226-52717-8
8270:978-0-415-08945-6
8253:Matthews, Stephen
8206:978-3-319-12619-7
8151:978-3-11-021914-2
8113:978-81-920651-1-3
8051:978-0-8048-3853-5
8032:978-1-136-53941-1
8013:978-0-521-56514-1
7853:978-0-8248-1068-9
7791:978-7-100-07054-6
7686:978-3-11-012324-1
7664:978-0-87281-032-7
7571:. 17 January 2006
7554:, pp. 27–43.
7552:Zimmermann (2010)
7508:The New Messenger
7381:Chang, Tsung-tung
7293:978-1-58573-057-5
7268:, pp. 20–22.
7152:, pp. 27–28.
7140:, pp. 55–57.
7053:, pp. 72–73.
7041:, pp. 55–56.
7029:, pp. 53–55.
6875:, pp. 98–99.
6851:, pp. 75–77.
6839:, pp. 29–30.
6731:, pp. 49–51.
6719:, pp. 48–49.
6683:, pp. 34–42.
6659:, pp. 14–15.
6611:, pp. 42–45.
6527:, pp. 12–13.
6439:(27th ed., 2024)
6265:Dialect continuum
6046:
6045:
6002:Chiang Chieh-shih
5638:Kangxi Dictionary
5469:Written Cantonese
5442:in Cantonese and
5391:Taiwanese Braille
5330:
5329:
5326:; 'clan'
5262:; 'home'
4677:
4676:
4505:
4504:
4451:Modern borrowings
4103:, and only a few
4091:—it possesses no
4079:: they depend on
3923:
3922:
3860:'recognize-know'
3784:
3783:
3526:
3525:
3287:
3286:
3114:
2964:, or consonant +
2918:
2790:Taiwanese Hokkien
2734:standard language
2454:voiced initials:
2398:North China Plain
2394:dialect continuum
2130:Tripitaka Koreana
2002:North China Plain
1948:Classical Chinese
1861:Classic of Poetry
1846:Book of Documents
1840:Classic of Poetry
1693:Republic of China
1667:operated using a
1521:
1473:language' or
1467:
1429:
1428:
1421:
1420:
1321:Standard Mandarin
1261:
1260:
1144:Yale Romanization
1062:Yale Romanization
977:Standard Mandarin
928:
927:
808:Yale Romanization
726:Yale Romanization
641:Standard Mandarin
574:
573:
556:rendering support
552:phonetic symbols.
382:Regulated by
40:Sinitic languages
16:(Redirected from
16070:
16018:Chinese language
16000:
15999:
15998:
15988:
15987:
15986:
15976:
15975:
15974:
15964:
15963:
15962:
15952:
15951:
15943:
15882:Chinese language
15875:
15868:
15861:
15852:
15851:
15784:
15783:
15384:Mandarin Chinese
15275:
15274:
14871:Terengganu Malay
14671:
14670:
14549:
14548:
14531:
14524:
14517:
14508:
14507:
14239:
14238:
14194:Creole languages
14181:Johor-Riau Malay
14121:
14120:
14103:
14096:
14089:
14080:
14079:
13836:
13835:
13804:
13803:
13795:
13794:
13760:
13759:
13505:
13504:
13496:
13495:
13476:
13469:
13462:
13453:
13452:
13441:Mandarin Chinese
13389:
13382:
13375:
13366:
13365:
13318:
12888:
12880:
12872:
12586:
12585:
12359:
12358:
12262:
12261:
12251:
12250:
11439:
11438:
11334:
11333:
11323:
11322:
11310:
11309:
11306:
11305:
11134:
11133:
11121:Standard Chinese
11100:
11093:
11086:
11077:
11076:
11064:
11063:
11052:
11051:
11024:Taiwanese Hangul
10913:Mainland Chinese
10826:
10825:
10817:
10816:
10742:
10741:
10419:Standard Chinese
10402:
10170:
10169:
9889:
9888:
9782:
9781:
9773:
9772:
9655:
9643:
9631:
9619:
9607:
9406:
9405:
9078:
9077:
9069:
9068:
9045:Chinese language
9038:
9031:
9024:
9015:
9014:
8983:
8956:
8954:
8952:
8932:
8923:
8893:
8858:
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8802:
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8747:
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8683:
8664:
8645:
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8571:
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8491:
8481:
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8423:
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8385:
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8300:
8288:
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8091:
8055:
8036:
8017:
8004:Sociolinguistics
7998:
7996:
7989:
7984:白話為何在五四時期「活」起來了?
7977:
7959:
7931:
7898:
7857:
7831:
7800:Coblin, W. South
7795:
7769:
7751:
7718:
7690:
7668:
7640:
7639:
7637:
7635:
7626:. Archived from
7615:
7609:
7603:
7599:
7593:
7590:Wakefield (2019)
7587:
7581:
7580:
7578:
7576:
7561:
7555:
7549:
7543:
7542:
7540:
7538:
7533:on 6 August 2020
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7245:
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7233:
7227:
7221:
7215:
7209:
7198:
7192:
7186:
7180:
7177:DeFrancis (1984)
7174:
7165:
7159:
7153:
7147:
7141:
7138:DeFrancis (1984)
7135:
7129:
7123:
7117:
7111:
7105:
7099:
7093:
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7078:
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7018:
7012:
7006:
7000:
6991:
6985:
6979:
6973:
6967:
6957:
6951:
6945:
6936:
6933:Shibatani (1990)
6930:
6924:
6921:Wilkinson (2000)
6918:
6912:
6909:Shibatani (1990)
6906:
6900:
6894:
6888:
6885:Shibatani (1990)
6882:
6876:
6870:
6864:
6858:
6852:
6846:
6840:
6834:
6828:
6822:
6816:
6810:
6804:
6798:
6792:
6791:, pp. 3–15.
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6708:
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6660:
6654:
6648:
6645:Schüssler (2007)
6642:
6636:
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6612:
6606:
6600:
6594:
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6585:Schüssler (2007)
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6479:. 3 October 2018
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6340:DeFrancis (1984)
6337:
6328:
6325:
6305:DeFrancis (1984)
6278:
6272:
6261:
6256:
6251:
6245:
6242:
6236:
6233:
6227:
6224:
6174:Chinese numerals
6090:Palladius system
6070:'Phags-pa script
6037:
6030:
6023:
6011:
6004:
5997:
5993:
5981:
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5862:
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5796:For comparison:
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4274:
4269:
4264:
4190:subject dropping
4186:pronoun dropping
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3023:
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3007:
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2983:
2979:
2944:(which can be a
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2795:
2786:Taiwanese people
2772:
2767:
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2744:
2739:
2722:Standard Chinese
2716:Standard Chinese
2644:
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2594:
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2463:Standard Chinese
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2259:
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2222:
2214:
2154:Chinese Buddhism
2092:
2087:
2083:
2074:
2069:
2065:
2058:In the 1930s, a
2049:
2044:
2040:
2007:Zhongyuan Yinyun
1920:
1824:
1821:
1739:, together with
1685:Standard Chinese
1640:
1637:
1627:consists of the
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1481:
1476:
1468:
1465:
1461:
1452:
1444:
1417:
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1399:
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690:
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579:Chinese language
576:
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539:
533:
527:
521:
512:
496:
489:
480:
474:
467:
461:
453:
444:
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370:language in
293:
213:Standard Chinese
142:
79:
74:(middle) forms,
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32:Standard Chinese
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16077:
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15424:Malaysian Tamil
15397:
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14981:Eastern Kadazan
14961:Coastal Kadazan
14887:
14880:
14692:
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14072:
13997:Other languages
13992:
13976:
13950:
13919:Taiwanese Hakka
13901:
13898:(Wuqiu dialect)
13882:
13857:
13853:Teochew dialect
13825:
13776:
13745:
13717:
13691:
13626:
13549:
13533:
13485:
13480:
13450:
13445:
13431:Macanese Patois
13419:
13398:
13393:
13363:
13358:
13332:
13312:
13290:
13219:
13163:
12974:
12967:
12893:
12873:(Indo-European)
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12662:
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12255:Other languages
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12117:Central Tibetan
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11896:
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11380:
11328:
11317:
11293:
11277:
11184:
11125:
11109:
11104:
11069:
11061:
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11038:
10975:Tongyong Pinyin
10955:Gwoyeu Romatzyh
10943:Dungan Cyrillic
10926:
10895:
10865:
10806:
10797:Written Hokkien
10778:
10737:
10731:
10707:Middle Mandarin
10673:
10593:
10568:
10530:
10477:
10410:
10403:
10390:
10339:
10287:
10246:
10223:
10159:
10093:
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9109:
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9042:
9008:Wayback Machine
8990:
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8902:Chinese Writing
8896:
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8830:
8812:
8810:Further reading
8807:
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8702:
8680:
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8615:10.2307/2718766
8587:
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8428:Sagart, Laurent
8420:
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8382:
8360:
8341:
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8297:
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8240:
8236:
8221:
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8207:
8185:
8183:
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8128:
8114:
8089:
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7836:DeFrancis, John
7792:
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7631:
7630:on 29 June 2011
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7526:全球華文網-華文世界,數位之最
7523:
7522:
7518:
7512:
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7498:
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7475:
7471:
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7162:Campbell (2008)
7160:
7156:
7150:Thomason (1988)
7148:
7144:
7136:
7132:
7128:, pp. 7–8.
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7072:
7071:on 11 July 2021
7065:"自由廣場》Taigi與台語"
7061:
7057:
7051:Kurpaska (2010)
7049:
7045:
7039:Kurpaska (2010)
7037:
7033:
7027:Kurpaska (2010)
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6861:Kornicki (2011)
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6599:, pp. 2–3.
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6284:David Crystal,
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6194:Han unification
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6050:Gwoyeu Romatzyh
6015:Chiang Kai-shek
5715:
5709:
5662:clerical script
5539:
5533:
5527:
5503:Dungan language
5393:
5383:Written Chinese
5381:Main articles:
5379:
4627:'mobile phone'
4543:; Shanghainese
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4492:
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4227:Hanyu Da Cidian
4207:Hanyu Da Zidian
4198:
3939:alone, and not
3543:
3537:
3535:Chinese grammar
3531:
3368:
3122:
3121:
3120:
3119:
3110:
3099:
3098:
3097:
3089:
3088:
3080:
3079:
3071:
3070:
3042:
2913:
2911:
2897:
2826:
2730:
2724:
2718:
2690:Danzhou dialect
2653:
2652:
2651:
2650:
2649:, others (0.6%)
2642:
2640:
2632:
2630:
2622:
2620:
2612:
2610:
2602:
2600:
2592:
2590:
2582:
2580:
2572:
2570:
2562:
2560:
2552:
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:
171:
164:
143:
140:Language family
138:
129:
128:Native speakers
122:
81:
43:
28:
23:
22:
15:
12:
11:
5:
16076:
16066:
16065:
16060:
16058:Lingua francas
16055:
16050:
16045:
16040:
16035:
16030:
16025:
16020:
16005:
16004:
15992:
15980:
15968:
15956:
15933:
15932:
15927:
15926:
15924:
15923:
15918:
15913:
15912:
15911:
15906:
15901:
15890:
15887:
15886:
15878:
15877:
15870:
15863:
15855:
15846:
15845:
15843:
15842:
15839:
15835:
15832:
15831:
15828:
15827:
15825:
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15819:
15813:
15811:
15807:
15806:
15804:
15803:
15802:
15801:
15790:
15788:
15781:
15775:
15774:
15772:
15771:
15766:
15761:
15756:
15751:
15746:
15741:
15736:
15731:
15726:
15725:
15724:
15714:
15709:
15704:
15699:
15694:
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15678:
15676:
15670:
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15666:
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15656:
15650:
15648:
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15623:
15613:
15608:
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15575:
15573:
15569:
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15548:
15537:
15535:
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15522:
15517:
15512:
15507:
15502:
15497:
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15495:
15485:
15480:
15474:
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15466:
15465:
15463:
15462:
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15460:
15455:
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15445:
15435:
15434:
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15428:
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15426:
15416:
15405:
15403:
15399:
15398:
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15395:
15394:
15393:
15392:
15391:
15381:
15380:
15379:
15378:
15377:
15376:
15375:
15365:
15364:
15363:
15361:Penang Hokkien
15358:
15343:
15338:
15333:
15332:
15331:
15326:
15311:
15306:
15305:
15304:
15303:
15302:
15281:
15279:
15272:
15266:
15265:
15262:
15261:
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15258:
15253:
15248:
15243:
15238:
15233:
15228:
15223:
15218:
15213:
15208:
15203:
15198:
15193:
15191:Selungai Murut
15188:
15183:
15178:
15173:
15168:
15163:
15158:
15153:
15148:
15143:
15141:Punan Bah-Biau
15138:
15133:
15128:
15123:
15121:Nonukan Tidong
15118:
15113:
15108:
15103:
15098:
15093:
15088:
15083:
15078:
15073:
15068:
15063:
15058:
15053:
15048:
15043:
15041:Keningau Murut
15038:
15033:
15028:
15023:
15018:
15013:
15008:
15003:
14998:
14993:
14988:
14983:
14978:
14973:
14968:
14963:
14958:
14953:
14948:
14943:
14938:
14933:
14928:
14923:
14918:
14913:
14908:
14903:
14898:
14892:
14890:
14882:
14881:
14879:
14878:
14873:
14868:
14863:
14858:
14853:
14848:
14843:
14838:
14833:
14828:
14823:
14818:
14813:
14808:
14803:
14798:
14793:
14788:
14783:
14778:
14773:
14768:
14763:
14758:
14753:
14748:
14743:
14738:
14733:
14728:
14723:
14718:
14713:
14708:
14703:
14697:
14695:
14687:
14686:
14684:
14683:
14677:
14675:
14668:
14657:
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14634:
14629:
14624:
14619:
14614:
14604:
14603:
14602:
14591:
14589:
14583:
14582:
14579:
14578:
14576:
14575:
14574:
14573:
14563:
14557:
14555:
14546:
14542:
14541:
14534:
14533:
14526:
14519:
14511:
14502:
14501:
14499:
14498:
14492:
14490:
14489:Sign languages
14486:
14485:
14482:
14481:
14479:
14478:
14473:
14468:
14463:
14458:
14453:
14448:
14443:
14438:
14432:
14430:
14426:
14425:
14423:
14422:
14417:
14412:
14407:
14402:
14401:
14400:
14395:
14390:
14380:
14375:
14369:
14367:
14361:
14360:
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14350:
14345:
14340:
14335:
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14318:
14313:
14302:
14300:
14294:
14293:
14291:
14290:
14289:
14288:
14283:
14278:
14273:
14268:
14263:
14258:
14247:
14245:
14236:
14232:
14231:
14229:
14228:
14223:
14218:
14213:
14208:
14203:
14197:
14195:
14191:
14190:
14188:
14187:
14182:
14178:
14176:
14172:
14171:
14168:
14167:
14165:
14164:
14159:
14154:
14149:
14143:
14141:
14137:
14136:
14134:
14133:
14127:
14125:
14118:
14117:Main languages
14114:
14113:
14106:
14105:
14098:
14091:
14083:
14074:
14073:
14071:
14070:
14065:
14060:
14055:
14054:
14053:
14048:
14038:
14033:
14028:
14023:
14022:
14021:
14011:
14006:
14000:
13998:
13994:
13993:
13991:
13990:
13984:
13982:
13978:
13977:
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13968:
13966:
13960:
13959:
13956:
13955:
13952:
13951:
13949:
13948:
13947:
13946:
13941:
13936:
13931:
13926:
13915:
13913:
13907:
13906:
13903:
13902:
13900:
13899:
13896:Putian dialect
13892:
13890:
13884:
13883:
13881:
13880:
13879:
13878:
13867:
13865:
13859:
13858:
13856:
13855:
13850:
13844:
13842:
13833:
13827:
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13824:
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13812:
13810:
13801:
13792:
13786:
13785:
13782:
13781:
13778:
13777:
13775:
13774:
13768:
13766:
13757:
13751:
13750:
13747:
13746:
13744:
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13738:
13733:
13727:
13725:
13719:
13718:
13716:
13715:
13710:
13705:
13699:
13697:
13693:
13692:
13690:
13689:
13684:
13679:
13674:
13669:
13664:
13663:
13662:
13657:
13647:
13642:
13636:
13634:
13628:
13627:
13625:
13624:
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13614:
13609:
13608:
13607:
13599:
13598:
13597:
13592:
13582:
13577:
13576:
13575:
13570:
13559:
13557:
13551:
13550:
13548:
13547:
13541:
13539:
13535:
13534:
13532:
13531:
13530:
13529:
13519:
13513:
13511:
13502:
13493:
13487:
13486:
13479:
13478:
13471:
13464:
13456:
13447:
13446:
13444:
13443:
13438:
13433:
13427:
13425:
13421:
13420:
13418:
13417:
13412:
13406:
13404:
13400:
13399:
13392:
13391:
13384:
13377:
13369:
13360:
13359:
13357:
13356:
13353:
13350:
13347:
13344:
13343:HK = Hong Kong
13341:
13337:
13334:
13333:
13331:
13330:
13323:
13322:
13321:
13320:
13319:
13314:Hong Kong Sign
13307:
13298:
13296:
13292:
13291:
13289:
13288:
13283:
13278:
13273:
13268:
13263:
13258:
13253:
13248:
13243:
13238:
13233:
13227:
13225:
13221:
13220:
13218:
13217:
13212:
13207:
13202:
13197:
13192:
13187:
13182:
13177:
13171:
13169:
13165:
13164:
13162:
13161:
13160:
13159:
13154:
13144:
13143:
13142:
13137:
13127:
13126:
13125:
13120:
13110:
13109:
13108:
13103:
13098:
13093:
13088:
13083:
13082:
13081:
13076:
13071:
13056:
13051:
13046:
13041:
13040:
13039:
13034:
13033:
13032:
13022:
13017:
13016:
13015:
13005:
13000:
12995:
12990:
12979:
12977:
12969:
12968:
12966:
12965:
12960:
12954:
12949:
12944:
12939:
12934:
12929:
12924:
12919:
12913:
12911:
12907:
12906:
12903:
12902:
12899:
12898:
12895:
12894:
12892:
12891:
12889:(Austronesian)
12883:
12881:(Austronesian)
12875:
12866:
12864:
12860:
12859:
12857:
12856:
12851:
12846:
12841:
12836:
12831:
12825:
12823:
12817:
12816:
12814:
12813:
12808:
12803:
12798:
12793:
12787:
12785:
12779:
12778:
12775:
12774:
12772:
12771:
12766:
12761:
12756:
12751:
12746:
12741:
12736:
12731:
12726:
12721:
12716:
12711:
12706:
12701:
12696:
12691:
12686:
12681:
12676:
12670:
12668:
12664:
12663:
12661:
12660:
12655:
12650:
12645:
12640:
12635:
12630:
12625:
12620:
12615:
12610:
12605:
12600:
12594:
12592:
12583:
12577:
12576:
12574:
12573:
12568:
12563:
12558:
12553:
12548:
12543:
12538:
12533:
12528:
12523:
12517:
12515:
12509:
12508:
12505:
12504:
12502:
12501:
12496:
12491:
12486:
12480:
12478:
12472:
12471:
12469:
12468:
12463:
12458:
12453:
12448:
12443:
12438:
12433:
12428:
12423:
12418:
12413:
12408:
12403:
12398:
12393:
12388:
12383:
12378:
12373:
12367:
12365:
12356:
12350:
12349:
12347:
12346:
12341:
12336:
12331:
12326:
12321:
12316:
12311:
12306:
12301:
12296:
12291:
12286:
12281:
12276:
12270:
12268:
12258:
12257:
12247:
12246:
12243:
12242:
12239:
12238:
12236:
12235:
12230:
12225:
12220:
12215:
12210:
12205:
12200:
12194:
12192:
12188:
12187:
12185:
12184:
12179:
12174:
12169:
12164:
12159:
12154:
12149:
12144:
12139:
12134:
12129:
12124:
12119:
12114:
12109:
12104:
12098:
12096:
12090:
12089:
12087:
12086:
12081:
12076:
12071:
12066:
12061:
12059:Southern Qiang
12056:
12054:Northern Qiang
12051:
12046:
12041:
12036:
12031:
12026:
12021:
12016:
12011:
12006:
12001:
11996:
11991:
11986:
11980:
11978:
11972:
11971:
11968:
11967:
11964:
11963:
11961:
11960:
11955:
11950:
11945:
11940:
11935:
11930:
11925:
11920:
11915:
11910:
11904:
11902:
11898:
11897:
11895:
11894:
11889:
11884:
11879:
11874:
11869:
11864:
11859:
11854:
11849:
11844:
11839:
11834:
11829:
11824:
11819:
11814:
11809:
11804:
11799:
11794:
11789:
11784:
11779:
11774:
11769:
11764:
11759:
11753:
11751:
11745:
11744:
11742:
11741:
11736:
11731:
11726:
11721:
11716:
11711:
11706:
11701:
11696:
11691:
11686:
11681:
11676:
11671:
11666:
11661:
11656:
11651:
11646:
11641:
11635:
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11627:
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11623:
11618:
11613:
11608:
11603:
11598:
11593:
11588:
11583:
11578:
11573:
11568:
11563:
11558:
11553:
11548:
11543:
11538:
11533:
11528:
11523:
11518:
11513:
11508:
11503:
11498:
11493:
11488:
11483:
11478:
11473:
11468:
11463:
11458:
11453:
11447:
11445:
11436:
11430:
11429:
11427:
11426:
11421:
11416:
11411:
11406:
11401:
11396:
11390:
11388:
11382:
11381:
11379:
11378:
11373:
11368:
11363:
11358:
11353:
11348:
11342:
11340:
11331:
11319:
11318:
11303:
11299:
11298:
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11276:
11275:
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11225:
11220:
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11210:
11205:
11200:
11194:
11192:
11186:
11185:
11183:
11182:
11177:
11172:
11167:
11162:
11157:
11152:
11146:
11144:
11131:
11127:
11126:
11124:
11123:
11117:
11115:
11111:
11110:
11103:
11102:
11095:
11088:
11080:
11074:
11071:
11070:
11058:
11057:
11047:
11044:
11043:
11040:
11039:
11037:
11036:
11031:
11026:
11021:
11019:Taiwanese kana
11016:
11015:
11014:
11009:
10999:
10998:
10997:
10992:
10990:Lessing-Othmer
10987:
10982:
10977:
10972:
10967:
10962:
10957:
10947:
10946:
10945:
10934:
10932:
10928:
10927:
10925:
10920:
10915:
10910:
10905:
10903:
10897:
10896:
10894:
10893:
10888:
10887:
10886:
10881:
10870:
10867:
10866:
10864:
10859:
10854:
10849:
10844:
10839:
10834:
10832:
10823:
10814:
10808:
10807:
10805:
10804:
10799:
10794:
10792:Written Dungan
10789:
10783:
10780:
10779:
10777:
10776:
10771:
10770:
10769:
10764:
10759:
10748:
10746:
10739:
10733:
10732:
10730:
10729:
10724:
10719:
10714:
10709:
10704:
10699:
10697:Middle Chinese
10694:
10689:
10683:
10681:
10675:
10674:
10672:
10671:
10666:
10664:Wubi (Wang Ma)
10661:
10656:
10655:
10654:
10649:
10644:
10634:
10629:
10624:
10623:
10622:
10612:
10609:
10603:
10601:
10595:
10594:
10592:
10591:
10584:
10576:
10574:
10570:
10569:
10567:
10566:
10561:
10556:
10551:
10546:
10540:
10538:
10532:
10531:
10529:
10528:
10523:
10518:
10513:
10508:
10503:
10498:
10497:
10496:
10485:
10483:
10479:
10478:
10476:
10475:
10470:
10465:
10460:
10459:
10458:
10457:
10456:
10451:
10441:
10436:
10431:
10426:
10415:
10413:
10405:
10404:
10397:
10395:
10392:
10391:
10389:
10388:
10383:
10381:Xiangnan Tuhua
10378:
10373:
10368:
10366:Shaozhou Tuhua
10363:
10358:
10353:
10347:
10345:
10341:
10340:
10338:
10337:
10336:
10335:
10330:
10325:
10317:
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15124:
15122:
15119:
15117:
15114:
15112:
15109:
15107:
15104:
15102:
15099:
15097:
15094:
15092:
15089:
15087:
15084:
15082:
15079:
15077:
15074:
15072:
15069:
15067:
15064:
15062:
15059:
15057:
15054:
15052:
15049:
15047:
15044:
15042:
15039:
15037:
15034:
15032:
15029:
15027:
15024:
15022:
15019:
15017:
15014:
15012:
15009:
15007:
15004:
15002:
14999:
14997:
14994:
14992:
14989:
14987:
14984:
14982:
14979:
14977:
14974:
14972:
14969:
14967:
14964:
14962:
14959:
14957:
14954:
14952:
14949:
14947:
14946:Brunei Bisaya
14944:
14942:
14939:
14937:
14934:
14932:
14929:
14927:
14924:
14922:
14919:
14917:
14914:
14912:
14909:
14907:
14904:
14902:
14899:
14897:
14894:
14893:
14891:
14889:
14883:
14877:
14874:
14872:
14869:
14867:
14864:
14862:
14859:
14857:
14854:
14852:
14851:Southern Thai
14849:
14847:
14844:
14842:
14839:
14837:
14834:
14832:
14829:
14827:
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:
14442:
14439:
14437:
14434:
14433:
14431:
14427:
14421:
14418:
14416:
14413:
14411:
14408:
14406:
14403:
14399:
14396:
14394:
14391:
14389:
14386:
14385:
14384:
14381:
14379:
14376:
14374:
14371:
14370:
14368:
14366:
14362:
14354:
14351:
14349:
14346:
14344:
14341:
14339:
14336:
14334:
14331:
14329:
14326:
14325:
14324:
14321:
14317:
14314:
14312:
14309:
14308:
14307:
14304:
14303:
14301:
14299:
14295:
14287:
14284:
14282:
14279:
14277:
14274:
14272:
14269:
14267:
14264:
14262:
14259:
14257:
14254:
14253:
14252:
14249:
14248:
14246:
14244:
14240:
14237:
14233:
14227:
14224:
14222:
14219:
14217:
14214:
14212:
14209:
14207:
14204:
14202:
14199:
14198:
14196:
14192:
14186:
14185:Orang Seletar
14183:
14180:
14179:
14177:
14173:
14163:
14160:
14158:
14155:
14153:
14150:
14148:
14145:
14144:
14142:
14138:
14132:
14129:
14128:
14126:
14122:
14119:
14115:
14111:
14104:
14099:
14097:
14092:
14090:
14085:
14084:
14081:
14069:
14066:
14064:
14061:
14059:
14056:
14052:
14049:
14047:
14044:
14043:
14042:
14039:
14037:
14034:
14032:
14029:
14027:
14024:
14020:
14017:
14016:
14015:
14012:
14010:
14007:
14005:
14002:
14001:
13999:
13995:
13989:
13986:
13985:
13983:
13979:
13973:
13970:
13969:
13967:
13965:
13961:
13945:
13942:
13940:
13937:
13935:
13932:
13930:
13927:
13925:
13922:
13921:
13920:
13917:
13916:
13914:
13912:
13908:
13897:
13894:
13893:
13891:
13889:
13885:
13877:
13876:Matsu dialect
13874:
13873:
13872:
13869:
13868:
13866:
13864:
13860:
13854:
13851:
13849:
13846:
13845:
13843:
13841:
13837:
13834:
13832:
13828:
13822:
13819:
13817:
13814:
13813:
13811:
13809:
13805:
13802:
13800:
13796:
13793:
13791:
13787:
13773:
13770:
13769:
13767:
13765:
13761:
13758:
13756:
13752:
13742:
13739:
13737:
13734:
13732:
13729:
13728:
13726:
13724:
13720:
13714:
13711:
13709:
13706:
13704:
13701:
13700:
13698:
13694:
13688:
13685:
13683:
13680:
13678:
13675:
13673:
13670:
13668:
13665:
13661:
13658:
13656:
13653:
13652:
13651:
13648:
13646:
13643:
13641:
13638:
13637:
13635:
13633:
13629:
13623:
13620:
13618:
13615:
13613:
13610:
13605:
13604:
13603:
13600:
13596:
13593:
13591:
13588:
13587:
13586:
13583:
13581:
13578:
13574:
13571:
13569:
13566:
13565:
13564:
13561:
13560:
13558:
13556:
13552:
13546:
13543:
13542:
13540:
13536:
13528:
13525:
13524:
13523:
13520:
13518:
13515:
13514:
13512:
13510:
13506:
13503:
13501:
13497:
13494:
13492:
13488:
13484:
13477:
13472:
13470:
13465:
13463:
13458:
13457:
13454:
13442:
13439:
13437:
13434:
13432:
13429:
13428:
13426:
13422:
13416:
13413:
13411:
13408:
13407:
13405:
13401:
13397:
13390:
13385:
13383:
13378:
13376:
13371:
13370:
13367:
13354:
13352:XJ = Xinjiang
13351:
13348:
13345:
13342:
13339:
13338:
13335:
13329:
13327:
13324:
13317:
13315:
13311:
13310:
13308:
13305:
13304:
13303:
13300:
13299:
13297:
13293:
13287:
13284:
13282:
13279:
13277:
13274:
13272:
13269:
13267:
13264:
13262:
13259:
13257:
13254:
13252:
13249:
13247:
13244:
13242:
13239:
13237:
13234:
13232:
13229:
13228:
13226:
13222:
13216:
13213:
13211:
13208:
13206:
13203:
13201:
13198:
13196:
13193:
13191:
13188:
13186:
13183:
13181:
13178:
13176:
13173:
13172:
13170:
13166:
13158:
13155:
13153:
13150:
13149:
13148:
13145:
13141:
13138:
13136:
13133:
13132:
13131:
13128:
13124:
13121:
13119:
13116:
13115:
13114:
13111:
13107:
13104:
13102:
13099:
13097:
13094:
13092:
13089:
13087:
13084:
13080:
13077:
13075:
13072:
13070:
13067:
13066:
13065:
13062:
13061:
13060:
13057:
13055:
13052:
13050:
13047:
13045:
13042:
13038:
13035:
13031:
13028:
13027:
13026:
13023:
13021:
13018:
13014:
13011:
13010:
13009:
13006:
13004:
13001:
12999:
12996:
12994:
12991:
12989:
12986:
12985:
12984:
12981:
12980:
12978:
12976:
12970:
12964:
12961:
12958:
12955:
12953:
12950:
12948:
12945:
12943:
12940:
12938:
12935:
12933:
12930:
12928:
12925:
12923:
12920:
12918:
12915:
12914:
12912:
12908:
12887:
12884:
12879:
12876:
12871:
12868:
12867:
12865:
12861:
12855:
12854:Western Yugur
12852:
12850:
12847:
12845:
12842:
12840:
12837:
12835:
12832:
12830:
12827:
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
12454:
12452:
12449:
12447:
12444:
12442:
12439:
12437:
12434:
12432:
12429:
12427:
12424:
12422:
12419:
12417:
12414:
12412:
12409:
12407:
12404:
12402:
12399:
12397:
12394:
12392:
12389:
12387:
12384:
12382:
12379:
12377:
12374:
12372:
12369:
12368:
12366:
12364:
12360:
12357:
12355:
12351:
12345:
12342:
12340:
12337:
12335:
12332:
12330:
12327:
12325:
12322:
12320:
12317:
12315:
12312:
12310:
12307:
12305:
12302:
12300:
12297:
12295:
12292:
12290:
12287:
12285:
12282:
12280:
12277:
12275:
12272:
12271:
12269:
12267:
12266:Austroasiatic
12263:
12259:
12252:
12248:
12234:
12231:
12229:
12226:
12224:
12221:
12219:
12216:
12214:
12211:
12209:
12206:
12204:
12201:
12199:
12196:
12195:
12193:
12189:
12183:
12180:
12178:
12175:
12173:
12170:
12168:
12165:
12163:
12160:
12158:
12155:
12153:
12150:
12148:
12145:
12143:
12140:
12138:
12135:
12133:
12130:
12128:
12125:
12123:
12120:
12118:
12115:
12113:
12110:
12108:
12105:
12103:
12100:
12099:
12097:
12095:
12091:
12085:
12082:
12080:
12077:
12075:
12072:
12070:
12067:
12065:
12062:
12060:
12057:
12055:
12052:
12050:
12047:
12045:
12042:
12040:
12037:
12035:
12032:
12030:
12027:
12025:
12022:
12020:
12017:
12015:
12012:
12010:
12007:
12005:
12002:
12000:
11997:
11995:
11992:
11990:
11987:
11985:
11982:
11981:
11979:
11977:
11973:
11959:
11956:
11954:
11951:
11949:
11946:
11944:
11941:
11939:
11936:
11934:
11931:
11929:
11926:
11924:
11921:
11919:
11916:
11914:
11911:
11909:
11906:
11905:
11903:
11899:
11893:
11890:
11888:
11885:
11883:
11880:
11878:
11875:
11873:
11870:
11868:
11865:
11863:
11860:
11858:
11855:
11853:
11850:
11848:
11845:
11843:
11840:
11838:
11835:
11833:
11830:
11828:
11825:
11823:
11820:
11818:
11815:
11813:
11810:
11808:
11805:
11803:
11800:
11798:
11795:
11793:
11790:
11788:
11785:
11783:
11780:
11778:
11775:
11773:
11770:
11768:
11765:
11763:
11760:
11758:
11755:
11754:
11752:
11750:
11746:
11740:
11737:
11735:
11732:
11730:
11727:
11725:
11722:
11720:
11717:
11715:
11712:
11710:
11707:
11705:
11702:
11700:
11697:
11695:
11692:
11690:
11687:
11685:
11682:
11680:
11677:
11675:
11672:
11670:
11667:
11665:
11662:
11660:
11657:
11655:
11652:
11650:
11647:
11645:
11642:
11640:
11637:
11636:
11634:
11632:
11628:
11622:
11619:
11617:
11614:
11612:
11609:
11607:
11604:
11602:
11599:
11597:
11594:
11592:
11589:
11587:
11584:
11582:
11579:
11577:
11574:
11572:
11569:
11567:
11564:
11562:
11559:
11557:
11554:
11552:
11549:
11547:
11544:
11542:
11539:
11537:
11534:
11532:
11529:
11527:
11524:
11522:
11519:
11517:
11514:
11512:
11509:
11507:
11504:
11502:
11499:
11497:
11494:
11492:
11489:
11487:
11484:
11482:
11479:
11477:
11474:
11472:
11469:
11467:
11464:
11462:
11459:
11457:
11454:
11452:
11449:
11448:
11446:
11444:
11440:
11437:
11435:
11431:
11425:
11422:
11420:
11417:
11415:
11412:
11410:
11407:
11405:
11402:
11400:
11397:
11395:
11392:
11391:
11389:
11387:
11383:
11377:
11374:
11372:
11369:
11367:
11364:
11362:
11359:
11357:
11354:
11352:
11349:
11347:
11344:
11343:
11341:
11339:
11335:
11332:
11330:
11324:
11320:
11316:
11311:
11307:
11304:
11300:
11290:
11288:
11284:
11280:
11274:
11271:
11269:
11266:
11264:
11261:
11259:
11256:
11254:
11251:
11249:
11246:
11244:
11241:
11239:
11236:
11234:
11231:
11229:
11226:
11224:
11221:
11219:
11216:
11214:
11211:
11209:
11206:
11204:
11201:
11199:
11196:
11195:
11193:
11191:
11187:
11181:
11178:
11176:
11173:
11171:
11168:
11166:
11163:
11161:
11158:
11156:
11153:
11151:
11148:
11147:
11145:
11143:
11139:
11135:
11132:
11128:
11122:
11119:
11118:
11116:
11112:
11108:
11101:
11096:
11094:
11089:
11087:
11082:
11081:
11078:
11072:
11065:
11055:
11045:
11035:
11032:
11030:
11027:
11025:
11022:
11020:
11017:
11013:
11010:
11008:
11005:
11004:
11003:
11000:
10996:
10993:
10991:
10988:
10986:
10983:
10981:
10978:
10976:
10973:
10971:
10968:
10966:
10963:
10961:
10958:
10956:
10953:
10952:
10951:
10948:
10944:
10941:
10940:
10939:
10938:Cyrillization
10936:
10935:
10933:
10929:
10924:
10921:
10919:
10916:
10914:
10911:
10909:
10906:
10904:
10902:
10898:
10892:
10889:
10885:
10882:
10880:
10877:
10876:
10875:
10872:
10871:
10863:
10860:
10858:
10855:
10853:
10850:
10848:
10845:
10843:
10840:
10838:
10835:
10833:
10831:
10830:Script styles
10827:
10824:
10822:
10818:
10815:
10813:
10809:
10803:
10800:
10798:
10795:
10793:
10790:
10788:
10785:
10784:
10775:
10772:
10768:
10765:
10763:
10760:
10758:
10755:
10754:
10753:
10750:
10749:
10747:
10743:
10740:
10734:
10728:
10725:
10723:
10720:
10718:
10715:
10713:
10710:
10708:
10705:
10703:
10700:
10698:
10695:
10693:
10690:
10688:
10685:
10684:
10682:
10680:
10676:
10670:
10667:
10665:
10662:
10660:
10657:
10653:
10650:
10648:
10645:
10643:
10640:
10639:
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2182:vowel harmony
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15626:Chetty Malay
15368:Chaoshan Min
15346:Southern Min
15285:Sino-Tibetan
15166:Sabah Bisaya
15046:Kinabatangan
14951:Bukar–Sadong
14811:Pahang Malay
14607:Austronesian
14242:
14211:Chitty Malay
14206:Bazaar Malay
14019:Shanghainese
13964:Japonic Sign
13790:Sino-Tibetan
13491:Austronesian
13340:GX = Guangxi
13328:
13326:Tibetan Sign
13316:
13302:Chinese Sign
13168:Creole/Mixed
13037:Southeastern
13025:Southwestern
12988:Northeastern
12973:Varieties of
10960:Hanyu Pinyin
10950:Romanization
10857:Semi-cursive
10702:Old Mandarin
10659:Stroke count
10586:
10579:
10501:Old National
10344:Unclassified
9249:Southwestern
9082:Northeastern
9064:Major groups
9053:
9044:
8961:
8949:. Retrieved
8938:
8934:
8912:, Berkeley,
8906:Jerry Norman
8901:
8863:
8844:
8831:. Retrieved
8821:
8798:ScienceDaily
8796:
8763:(1): 27–43.
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7634:12 September
7632:. Retrieved
7628:the original
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7602:(in Chinese)
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7531:the original
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6476:
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6403:
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6292:
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6271:for details.
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6009:Jiǎng Jièshí
5972:Mao Tse-tung
5795:
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5754:Hanyu Pinyin
5751:
5743:Latin script
5739:Romanization
5737:
5729:
5707:Romanization
5700:
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5666:
5652:, including
5643:
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5414:The Chinese
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5279:; 'wireless'
5276:
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5176:'IT circles'
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4835:luóji, luójí
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4764:proper nouns
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4482:Please help
4470:may contain
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4124:
4111:to indicate
4074:
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4029:
4016:
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3992:
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3968:
3958:
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3934:
3928:
3924:
3919:'foodstuff'
3791:
3785:
3598:
3588:
3578:
3568:
3547:
3544:
3492:low, rising
3288:
3281:
3169:high, level
3051:
3047:pitch accent
3043:
3034:
2986:
2952:, or even a
2935:
2924:
2886:
2880:
2874:
2868:
2864:
2862:
2855:
2841:
2835:
2831:
2827:
2824:Nomenclature
2782:Shanghainese
2776:
2769:
2755:
2741:
2731:
2687:
2660:
2654:
2548:
2513:, including
2488:Shanghainese
2486:, including
2479:Central Asia
2461:, including
2449:
2444:
2441:China proper
2410:
2390:Jerry Norman
2387:
2293:
2283:
2277:
2267:
2261:
2250:
2245:
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2159:
2139:
2128:
2096:
2089:
2071:
2057:
2046:
2024:
2019:Menggu Ziyun
2017:
2011:
2005:
1998:Old Mandarin
1983:
1955:
1922:
1913:such as the
1911:rhyme tables
1904:
1886:
1860:
1850:
1844:
1838:
1835:Western Zhou
1816:oracle bones
1813:
1785:
1734:
1683:
1672:
1654:
1622:
1570:Shanghainese
1562:Southern Min
1527:
1478:
1458:
1434:
1433:
1430:
1328:Hanyu Pinyin
1215:Southern Min
1164:Zung1 man4*2
1123:Romanization
1100:Romanization
984:Hanyu Pinyin
938:
873:Southern Min
787:Romanization
764:Romanization
648:Hanyu Pinyin
547:
501:
157:
148:Sino-Tibetan
44:
15636:Sabah Malay
15631:Cocos Malay
15520:Minangkabau
15471:archipelago
15341:Pu-Xian Min
15319:Eastern Min
15269:Significant
15111:Murik Kayan
14821:Reman Malay
14816:Perak Malay
14801:Orang Kanaq
14741:Kedah Malay
14736:Judeo-Malay
14617:Kayan–Murik
14420:Minangkabau
12834:Fuyu Kyrgyz
12633:Tai Hongjin
12319:Muak Sa-aak
11029:Xiao'erjing
10891:Punctuation
10884:Traditional
10837:Oracle bone
10821:Logographic
10717:Proto-Hakka
10692:Eastern Han
10687:Old Chinese
10549:Classifiers
10516:Northern Wu
10444:Singaporean
9650: [
9638: [
9626: [
9614: [
9602: [
8823:Throughline
8713:. Longman.
8243:17 November
7537:15 February
7462:15 February
7451:粵普之爭 為你中文解毒
7408:Kane (2006)
7374:(in German)
7340:, July 2009
7242:Mair (1991)
7202:Bailey 1973
7189:Mair (1991)
6897:Sohn (2001)
6498:Mair (1991)
6058:Yale system
5955:Sun Yat-sen
5654:seal script
5558:pictographs
5418:centers on
5416:orthography
5342:wasei-kango
4705:), such as
4606:'computer'
4174:classifiers
4055:shǒuményuán
3690:'recognize'
3522:low, level
3428:mid, level
3362:high, level
2946:monophthong
2940:that has a
2788:also speak
2496:Wenzhounese
2421:Pearl River
2282:), and
2184:in Korean.
2142:Han dynasty
2037:, known as
1992:and Mongol
1800:Old Chinese
1643:Old Chinese
1489:Han Chinese
1306:Han writing
1239:Eastern Min
906:Eastern Min
562:instead of
411:Singapore:
316:Xiao'erjing
181:Old Chinese
170:Early forms
68:traditional
66:written in
16012:Categories
15909:Vietnamese
15894:Sinosphere
15769:Vietnamese
15759:Sri Lankan
15717:Indonesian
15674:Immigrants
15621:Baba Malay
15541:Philippine
15534:Philippine
15515:Mandailing
15469:Indonesian
15256:Umaʼ Lasan
15146:Punan Batu
15091:Lun Bawang
14836:Semaq Beri
14691:Peninsular
14674:Nationwide
14666:Indigenous
14637:Sama–Bajaw
14632:Philippine
14622:Land Dayak
14476:Vietnamese
14393:Mandailing
14365:Indonesian
14323:Indo-Aryan
14201:Baba Malay
14063:Vietnamese
14051:Indonesian
13871:Fuzhounese
13731:Kanakanavu
13410:Portuguese
13355:XZ = Tibet
13346:MC = Macau
13286:Zhangzhung
13030:Sichuanese
12957:Vietnamese
12354:Hmong-Mien
12233:Waxianghua
12014:Khroskyabs
11302:Indigenous
11190:Prefecture
11165:Portuguese
10980:Wade–Giles
10879:Simplified
10774:Vernacular
10767:in Vietnam
10620:Simplified
10607:Biaoxingma
10554:Honorifics
10489:Historical
10434:Philippine
10424:Sichuanese
10351:Badong Yao
10055:Shao–Jiang
9926:Philippine
9734:Xiangxiang
9729:Shuangfeng
9474:Taizhou Wu
9257:Sichuanese
8980:1246726702
8898:Qiu, Xigui
8609:: 86–110.
8182:(1): 56–71
7114:Kuo (2005)
6477:Ethnologue
6436:Ethnologue
6414:References
5985:Mao Zedong
5979:Máo Zédōng
5808:Wade–Giles
5805:Characters
5761:Wade–Giles
5562:ideographs
5535:See also:
5519:Hui people
5476:rime books
5405:Wang Xizhi
5046:baa1 si6,2
5036:dik1 si6,2
5016:kaa1 tung1
4977:soft power
4917:) and
4891:so1 faa3,2
4876:) and
4507:See also:
4496:April 2024
4476:irrelevant
4196:Vocabulary
3624:Cantonese
3595:homophones
3539:See also:
3045:two-toned
2960:(a single
2954:triphthong
2927:morphology
2876:vernacular
2726:See also:
2698:Waxianghua
2541:Taishanese
2515:Fuzhounese
2492:Suzhounese
2477:spoken in
2471:Sichuanese
2402:Taishanese
2295:gam1 gwat1
2174:Vietnamese
2113:See also:
1878:inflection
1827:Late Shang
1765:inflection
1709:logography
1376:Wade–Giles
1032:Wade–Giles
696:Wade–Giles
405:Malaysia:
72:simplified
70:(top) and
16002:Hong Kong
15990:Singapore
15810:By states
15664:Esperanto
15601:Chavacano
15414:Malayalam
15409:Dravidian
15336:Hainanese
15295:Cantonese
15231:Tombonuwo
15196:Sembakung
15016:Kalabakan
14966:Daro-Matu
14706:Cheq Wong
14644:Tai-Kadai
14561:Malaysian
14405:Baweanese
14378:Banjarese
14311:Malayalam
14306:Dravidian
14261:Hainanese
14256:Cantonese
14226:Singdarin
14046:Malaysian
14009:Cantonese
13981:Auxiliary
13650:Ketagalan
13568:Favorlang
13415:Cantonese
13266:Tocharian
13200:Qoqmončaq
13152:Cantonese
13106:Shaojiang
13079:Hainanese
13008:Zhongyuan
13003:Jiao-Liao
12937:Esperanto
12839:Ili Turki
12546:Khamnigan
12411:Kiong Nai
12182:Zitsadegu
11160:Mongolian
11150:Cantonese
10918:Taiwanese
10908:Cantonese
10752:Classical
10712:Proto-Min
10647:Microsoft
10506:Cantonese
10482:Phonology
10463:Cantonese
10454:Singdarin
10439:Malaysian
10429:Taiwanese
10333:Rongjiang
10323:Yongjiang
10319:Southern
10304:Northern
10278:Luo–Guang
10187:Hong Kong
10182:Guangzhou
10138:Taiwanese
10131:Changting
10065:Zhanjiang
9979:Zhongshan
9946:Malaysian
9941:Singapore
9906:Zhangzhou
9858:Zhongshan
9751:Yong–Quan
9647:Jing-Zhan
9577:Xuancheng
9554:Jiangshan
9433:Changzhou
9354:Junjiahua
9207:Guanzhong
9090:Changchun
8951:27 August
8890:209828119
8833:27 August
8777:1754-7075
8730:Putonghua
8470:0027-8424
8085:1996-4617
7966:0002-7294
7928:1749-818X
7895:144374994
7887:0143-4632
7766:201097561
7758:1430-0532
7716:143663395
7484:The Paper
7090:Li (2010)
6419:Citations
6041:Confucius
6028:K'ung Tsu
5886:Pei-ching
5830:Chung-kuo
5681:shorthand
5560:, simple
5499:syllabary
5424:morphemes
5026:gei1 lou2
4859:xiēsīdǐlǐ
4752:Sàibǎiwèi
4690:hànbǎobāo
4650:Bluetooth
4472:excessive
4339:Silk Road
4255:loanwords
4249:Loanwords
4218:CC-CEDICT
4041:hànbǎobāo
3613:Character
3571:compounds
3381:'history'
3309:Character
3133:Character
2962:consonant
2950:diphthong
2895:Phonology
2814:Hong Kong
2810:Guangdong
2778:Diglossia
2743:pǔtōnghuà
2710:Guangdong
2519:Hainanese
2417:Guangzhou
2351:Guangzhou
2302:Varieties
2279:dim2 sam1
2109:Influence
2099:Hong Kong
2091:pǔtōnghuà
1972:with the
1958:diglossia
1936:diasystem
1818:dated to
1749:Himalayas
1671:known as
1582:New Xiang
1578:Cantonese
1503:as their
1485:languages
1231:Tiong-bûn
1178:Zung men*
1129:Chung-Vun
1054:Jhong-wún
1039:Chung-wen
922:Háng-ngṳ̄
828:Hon3 jyu5
503:Glottolog
487:ISO 639-3
451:ISO 639-2
433:ISO 639-1
359:Singapore
331:ʼPhags-pa
228:Varieties
118:Singapore
113:Indonesia
91:Sinophone
16063:Sinology
15954:Language
15899:Japanese
15749:Nepalese
15734:Japanese
15712:Filipino
15659:Tanglish
15611:Manglish
15606:Kristang
15505:Javanese
15500:Buginese
15488:Madurese
15478:Acehnese
15443:Gujarati
15271:minority
15241:Tringgus
15206:Serudung
15036:Kendayan
15006:Jangkang
14888:Malaysia
14776:Mah Meri
14766:Kristang
14693:Malaysia
14587:Families
14553:Official
14456:Japanese
14451:Filipino
14441:Armenian
14415:Javanese
14410:Buginese
14373:Acehnese
14333:Gujarati
14221:Singlish
14216:Kristang
14157:Mandarin
14140:Official
14124:National
14031:Japanese
14026:Filipino
13840:Southern
13808:Mandarin
13696:Southern
13677:Sakizaya
13617:Saisiyat
13555:Northern
13509:Atayalic
13500:Formosan
13403:Official
13210:Tangwang
13190:Macanese
13185:Lingling
13118:Northern
13101:Northern
13064:Southern
12983:Mandarin
12910:Minority
12870:Sarikoli
12783:Tungusic
12744:Naxi Yao
12689:Cao Miao
12613:Ningming
12513:Mongolic
12489:Dzao Min
12484:Biao Min
12441:Qo Xiong
12436:Pingtang
12132:Dongwang
12074:Tshobdun
11999:Guiqiong
11601:Sangkong
11376:Muangphe
11338:Mondzish
11292:numerous
11283:Counties
11130:Regional
11114:Official
11002:Bopomofo
10931:Phonetic
10923:Two-cell
10852:Clerical
10762:in Japan
10757:Adoption
10745:Official
10736:Literary
10611:Boshiamy
10588:Xiehouyu
10544:Numerals
10521:Mandarin
10449:Standard
10409:Standard
10283:Qin–Lian
10273:Yong–Xun
10258:Gao–Yang
10204:Jiujiang
10192:Malaysia
10126:Tingzhou
10077:Wenchang
10038:Jianyang
10028:Northern
9987:Sanxiang
9901:Quanzhou
9884:Southern
9853:Manjiang
9717:Changsha
9677:Nanchang
9672:Chang–Du
9569:Xuanzhou
9559:Qingtian
9513:Wencheng
9459:Jiangyin
9454:Jinxiang
9444:Shaoxing
9438:Hangzhou
9418:Shanghai
9359:Qinjiang
9267:Minjiang
9239:Xinjiang
9197:Dongping
9161:Jiaoliao
9100:Shenyang
9073:Mandarin
9004:Archived
8945:Archived
8900:(2000),
8785:53981784
8690:(2000).
8597:(1970).
8488:31061123
8370:(1984).
8329:(1988).
8307:(2004).
8281:(1967).
8259:(1994).
8217:(1991).
7992:Archived
7938:(1966).
7838:(1984).
7802:(2000).
7700:Language
7675:(1992).
7575:28 April
7569:BBC News
7383:(1988).
6314:Fu Maoji
6141:See also
6074:Bopomofo
5916:T'ai-pei
5860:T'ai-wan
5837:Zhōngguó
5814:Meaning
5790:T'ai-pei
5507:Cyrillic
5480:Sanskrit
5238:'e-home'
4958:gāo'ěrfū
4928:xiāngbīn
4901:mo1 daa2
4540:délǜfēng
4478:examples
4413:Sanskrit
4105:articles
3662:'actual'
3549:morpheme
3475:'market'
3316:Jyutping
3159:'mother'
2882:regional
2865:topolect
2800:, or an
2557:Mandarin
2459:Mandarin
2431:Grouping
2249:include
2170:Japanese
1891:and the
1751:and the
1691:and the
1618:analytic
1554:Mandarin
1538:dialects
1480:Zhōngwén
1342:Bopomofo
1255:Dṳng-ùng
1158:Jyutping
1150:Jūng mán
1107:Tson ven
1068:Jūng-wén
998:Bopomofo
990:Zhōngwén
822:Jyutping
771:Hoe nyiu
662:Bopomofo
626:language
568:Help:IPA
510:sini1245
395:Taiwan:
375:Malaysia
306:Bopomofo
235:Mandarin
108:Malaysia
80:(bottom)
77:Zhōngwén
15940:Portals
15921:Spanish
15916:English
15729:Persian
15697:Burmese
15692:Bengali
15682:African
15593:Creoles
15551:Maranao
15510:Kerinci
15453:Punjabi
15373:Teochew
15351:Hokkien
15278:Chinese
15226:Timugon
15186:Sekapan
15106:Momogun
15101:Melanau
15081:Lengilu
15071:Lahanan
15031:Kelabit
15021:Kanowit
15011:Kajaman
14956:Bukitan
14926:Bintulu
14916:Berawan
14841:Semelai
14751:Kenaboi
14716:Jah Hut
14661:Natives
14627:Malayic
14566:English
14446:Burmese
14388:Angkola
14353:Sinhala
14343:Punjabi
14328:Bengali
14286:Teochew
14281:Hokkien
14276:Hokchew
14271:Henghwa
14251:Sinitic
14243:Chinese
14147:English
14004:English
13944:Zhao'an
13939:Raoping
13888:Pu-Xian
13863:Eastern
13799:Sinitic
13764:Batanic
13687:Taivoan
13672:Qauqaut
13667:Makatao
13660:Luilang
13645:Kavalan
13436:English
13281:Xianbei
13276:Tuyuhun
13246:Old Yue
13224:Extinct
13205:Sanqiao
13096:Central
13086:Eastern
13069:Hokkien
13013:Lan-Yin
12993:Beijing
12975:Chinese
12932:Russian
12694:Chadong
12674:Ai-Cham
12643:Tai Nüa
12628:Tai Dón
12623:Tai Dam
12581:Kra-Dai
12551:Monguor
12541:Kangjia
12499:Kim Mun
12494:Iu Mien
12416:Luobohe
12406:Huishui
12386:Guiyang
12363:Hmongic
12324:Palaung
12314:Man Met
12218:Longjia
12167:Ladakhi
12162:Kyirong
12152:Khalong
12137:Drugchu
12094:Tibetic
12064:Shixing
11976:Qiangic
11757:Alingpo
11749:Nisoish
11734:Yangliu
11729:Xuzhang
11659:Laizisi
11654:Kuamasi
11649:Kua-nsi
11631:Lisoish
11611:Tsukong
11551:Laomian
11476:Baihong
11443:Hanoish
11434:Loloish
11419:Lhao Vo
11414:Chashan
11399:Xiandao
11386:Burmish
11329:Burmese
11287:Banners
11243:Tai Nüa
11170:Tibetan
11155:English
10901:Braille
10862:Cursive
10812:Scripts
10679:History
10669:ZhengMa
10615:Cangjie
10581:Chengyu
10536:Grammar
10511:Hokkien
10468:Hokkien
10376:Waxiang
10356:Danzhou
10328:Guandao
10313:Younian
10308:Tongdao
10297:Pinghua
10237:Taishan
10153:Raoping
10121:Huizhou
10111:Meixian
10087:Banqiao
10060:Leizhou
10050:Pu–Xian
10045:Central
10033:Jian'ou
10008:Longyan
9956:Teochew
9893:Hokkien
9868:Nanlang
9824:Fu–Ning
9804:Changle
9786:Houguan
9777:Eastern
9724:Loushao
9712:Changyi
9694:Da–Tong
9689:Ying–Yi
9635:Yanzhou
9503:Wenzhou
9496:Oujiang
9487:Tiantai
9482:Taizhou
9391:Zhi–Yan
9338:Nantong
9333:Nanjing
9308:Gui–Liu
9298:Nanping
9293:Kunming
9219:Luoyang
9174:Qingdao
9146:Tianjin
9123:Beijing
9115:Beijing
8935:Johnson
8623:2718766
8479:6534992
8448:Bibcode
8331:Chinese
8186:11 July
8131:26 June
7646:Sources
7075:11 July
6483:7 March
6431:Chinese
6316:in the
6260:fāngyán
6148:Chengyu
6118:in 1945
6080:) is a
5949:Sūn Wén
5942:Sun-wên
5899:Beijing
5893:Běijīng
5778:Běijīng
5773:Beijing
5626:radical
5554:Xu Shen
5259:jiātíng
5100:bùluògé
4773:Yǐsèliè
4739:Pentium
4734:bēnténg
4716:Mǎlì'ào
4673:'blog'
4667:wǎngzhì
4600:diànnǎo
4579:diànshì
4560:diànhuà
4546:télífon
4519:calques
4403:' (
4133:',
4129:; '
3897:shíjiān
3714:'stone'
3529:Grammar
3252:Neutral
3236:'scold'
3209:'horse'
2938:nucleus
2888:variety
2843:fāngyán
2682:Pinghua
2676:Huizhou
2657:Li Rong
2647:Pinghua
2637:Huizhou
2559:(65.7%)
2527:Teochew
2523:Hokkien
2375:Taishan
2339:50miles
2298:).
2285:kumquat
2269:dim sum
2266:),
2255:Hokkien
2227:chữ Nôm
2053:Nanjing
2048:Guānhuà
1917:Yunjing
1852:I Ching
1776:History
1745:Tibetan
1741:Burmese
1674:Guanhua
1572:), and
1532:of the
1435:Chinese
1398:Hàn-wún
1383:Han-wen
1368:Hannwen
1222:Hokkien
1024:Jongwen
962:writing
960:Chinese
939:Chinese
880:Hokkien
814:Hon yúh
793:Hon Ngi
688:Hannyeu
564:Unicode
475: (
462: (
389:China:
280:Huizhou
158:Chinese
153:Sinitic
93:world:
50:Chinese
15978:Taiwan
15904:Korean
15739:Korean
15687:Arabic
15572:Others
15556:Molbog
15546:Iranun
15493:Bawean
15483:Banjar
15431:Telugu
15402:Indian
15329:Fuzhou
15324:Fuqing
15216:Sungai
15161:Sa'ban
15131:Paluan
15126:Okolod
15066:Kuijau
14996:Ida'an
14971:Dumpas
14936:Bookan
14931:Bonggi
14921:Biatah
14911:Belait
14866:Temuan
14856:Temiar
14846:Semnam
14786:Mintil
14781:Minriq
14761:Kintaq
14756:Kensiu
14711:Duanoʼ
14600:Aslian
14466:Nepali
14461:Korean
14436:Arabic
14348:Sindhi
14316:Telugu
14298:Indian
14036:Korean
13924:Sixian
13821:Junhua
13736:Saaroa
13723:Tsouic
13713:Puyuma
13708:Paiwan
13682:Siraya
13606:Kaxabu
13590:Arikun
13585:Hoanya
13580:Papora
13573:Taokas
13563:Babuza
13538:Rukaic
13522:Seediq
13517:Atayal
13261:Tangut
13251:Rouran
13241:Khitan
13231:Ba–Shu
13195:Maojia
13180:Hezhou
13091:Puxian
13074:Teoswa
12959:(Kinh)
12927:Kyrgyz
12922:Korean
12917:Kazakh
12821:Turkic
12806:Oroqen
12796:Manchu
12791:Evenki
12759:Qabiao
12749:Ong Be
12734:Maonan
12724:Lakkja
12714:Jiamao
12684:Buyang
12648:Tai Ya
12638:Tai Lü
12598:Bouyei
12590:Zhuang
12571:Torgut
12526:Buryat
12476:Mienic
12466:Younuo
12446:Raojia
12426:Pa-Hng
12421:Mashan
12391:Hm Nai
12376:Bu-Nao
12371:A-Hmao
12294:Bumang
12213:Jingpo
12208:Derung
12203:Caijia
12177:Zhongu
12147:Gserpa
12039:Namuyi
12009:Japhug
11958:Zauzou
11933:Namuyi
11918:Kucong
11892:Zokhuo
11887:Thopho
11867:Phupha
11852:Phukha
11797:Khlula
11739:Zibusi
11724:Toloza
11719:Sonaga
11704:Mangdi
11699:Lolopo
11644:Hlersu
11581:Phana’
11576:Nuomei
11556:Laopin
11491:Bukong
11466:Angluo
11394:Achang
11371:Mondzi
11273:Zhuang
11248:Tai Lü
11238:Kazakh
11233:Kyrgyz
11218:Korean
11208:Bouyei
11180:Zhuang
11175:Uyghur
10970:Postal
10965:MPS II
10842:Bronze
10722:Ba–Shu
10642:Google
10637:Pinyin
10573:Idioms
10386:Yeheni
10268:Wu–Hua
10263:Goulou
10242:Xinhui
10219:Dapeng
10214:Weitou
10199:Xiguan
10174:Yuehai
10143:Sixian
10082:Haikou
10072:Hainan
10003:Zhenan
9969:Haklau
9964:Swatow
9936:Penang
9921:Taiwan
9916:Chawan
9863:Longdu
9832:Ningde
9809:Gutian
9799:Fuqing
9794:Fuzhou
9756:Qiyang
9739:Wugang
9684:Yi–Liu
9611:Xiu-Yi
9599:Ji-She
9549:Quzhou
9541:Chu–Qu
9531:Jinhua
9523:Wuzhou
9508:Rui'an
9449:Ningbo
9423:Suzhou
9313:Wuming
9284:Zigong
9272:Leshan
9234:Lanyin
9229:Dungan
9224:Xuzhou
9202:Gangou
9179:Weihai
9169:Dalian
9128:Taiwan
9095:Harbin
8978:
8968:
8916:
8888:
8878:
8851:
8783:
8775:
8740:
8717:
8698:
8676:
8657:
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8503:
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8267:
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8090:30 May
8083:
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7974:670407
7972:
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7885:
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7828:606615
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7764:
7756:
7714:
7683:
7661:
7624:Xinhua
7423:中文排版需求
7290:
6355:Using
6078:zhuyin
6056:, the
6035:Kǒngzǐ
5929:Taipei
5923:Táiběi
5873:Taiwan
5867:Táiwān
5811:Pinyin
5784:Taipei
5701:Kangxi
5677:glyphs
5513:. The
5389:, and
5369:keizai
5357:jīngjì
5291:shídài
5165:shǒujī
5117:zìmǔcí
4986:dísīkē
4849:shímáo
4757:Subway
4741:' and
4621:shǒujī
4425:Altaic
4401:hutong
4358:shíliú
4158:yǐjīng
4113:aspect
4097:voices
4093:tenses
4081:syntax
3994:shíyóu
3970:shíhuī
3960:shígāo
3950:shítou
3876:shítou
3855:rènshi
3818:Gloss
3815:Pinyin
3766:'food'
3742:'time'
3580:kūlong
3445:'time'
3342:'poem'
3282:varies
3182:'hemp'
3139:Pinyin
3028:, and
2907:, and
2885:, and
2704:, and
2694:Hainan
2645:
2643:
2639:(0.3%)
2635:
2633:
2629:(3.0%)
2625:
2623:
2619:(3.5%)
2615:
2613:
2609:(3.9%)
2605:
2603:
2599:(5.2%)
2595:
2593:
2589:(5.6%)
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