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| | Chinese Cultural Studies: The Chinese Language and Alphabet |
 | | After Chinese, Burmese and Tibetan are the two main languages of this family. | | | The 'Sinitic' part of the name refers to the various Chinese languages (often referred to as 'dialects'); the 'Tibetan' part refers to several languages found mainly in Tibet, Burma, and nearby territories. | | | Speaker estimates for Tibetan are very uncertain, largely because of the inflluence of Chinese in recent years; but a figure of 34 million seems likely. |
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http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinlng2.html
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| | Chinese Writing System (4): A bridge between dialects |
| | This is the original basis for the concept of Chinese as a language unified by its writing system. | | | Although Classical Chinese continued as the standard written language until the 20th century, a second written language gradually emerged alongside it. | | | Perhaps not coincidentally, Cantonese speakers seem to be among the most vigorous proponents of the idea that Chinese is a language unified by its writing system. |
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http://www.cjvlang.com/Writing/writsys/dial.html
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| | Chinese Translation Services - translate Chinese Translator |
| | Chinese, together with Tibetan and Burmese and the many tribal languages of South and Southeast Asia, belongs to the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. | | | Mandarin also forms the basis of the modern written vernacular, Baihua, which supplanted classical Chinese in the schools after 1917, and of the official spoken language, Putonghua, prescribed in 1956 for nationwide use in schools. | | | It has been estimated that until the 18th century more than half of the world's printed books were Chinese. |
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http://www.chinesetranslationusa.com
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| | Difference between Cantonese and Mandarin |
| | The reason that all dialects understand the same written Chinese is because it was declared by fiat to be the written form of Putonghua. | | | Note: there are some non-Unicode Chinese characters in this document. | | | No one has explained to me the curious chicken-and-egg question of why all Chinese are not "Edenese" or African. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/~sngai/cant-mandarin.htm
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| | Chinese Computing Information |
| | Chinese Traditional is the older form of the script and is used in Taiwan, some Hong Kong sites, and other locations outside of China, including various "Chinatowns" in the West. | | | Note also that a Chinese encoding system also includes content the Latin alphabet, the Cyrillic alphabet, Greek alphabet, tand other scripts. | | | Examples include Cantonese of Hong Kong and Wu of Shanghai, but there are about seven to ten language groups in total. |
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http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/chinese.html
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| | Chinese Dialects FAQ |
| | The major languages besides Chinese include the following: Manchurian, Mongolian, Uyghur, Tibetan, Yi, Zhuang and a great number of minor languages concentrated in the southern provinces of China bordering Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. | | | There are tens of thousands of villages in China however, and not every single one of them has a distinct dialect. | | | What is the definition of a language and a dialect? |
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http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/faq.htm
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| | EthnoMed: Chinese Language Profile |
| | The Chinese language is the oldest written language in the world with at least six thousand years of history. | | | Although many Chinese dialects exist, the written language is a common form of communication. | | | Many of the minority groups do not have a distinguishable written form for their languages. |
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http://ethnomed.org/ethnomed/cultures/chinese/chin_lang.html
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| | Yin & Yang and the I Ching |
| | However, they are all written with the same characters, which means that an educated person can understand their written forms, and for cultural and political reasons, as well as their historical origin, are regarded by the Chinese as part of the same language. | | | John DeFrancis [The Chinese Language, Fact and Fantasy, University of Hawaii Press, 1984, 1986, & Visible Speech, University of Hawaii Press, 1989], one of the greatest scholars of Chinese, has the view that language (or meaning) is essentially spoken (i.e. | | | Unfortunately, there are no Buddhist temples, as far as I know, upon Mt. Lukens. |
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http://www.friesian.com/yinyang.htm
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| | Chinese. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | The written language is a unifying factor culturally, for although the spoken languages and dialects may not be mutually comprehensible in many instances, the written form is universal. | | | It has several dialects and is spoken as a first language by some 835 million people in central and N China, as well as Taiwan, claiming more native speakers than any other language. | | | Chinese (again, like other Sino-Tibetan languages) is also strongly monosyllabic. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/ch/Chinese.html
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| | Linguistics, Languages and Chinese Dialects |
| | Modern Chinese scholars took the ancient Chinese pronunciation of these characters and matched them against the Zhuang language, and succeeded in deciphering the meaning of the song in the Zhuang language, an amazing feat in my opinion. | | | As the Chinese speaking people spread from the Central Plains, they intermarried with and assimilated the locals in the South, who might have spoken a Thai-Zhuang language. | | | Some say that Chinese and Tibetan are closer to each other. |
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http://weekly.china-forum.org/CCF94/ccf9443-4.html
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| | Chinese Language and Dialects - Chinese Culture |
| | While there is almost an unlimited number of Chinese dialects that make up the country, generally scholars recognize anywhere from seven to eleven of them as the major dialects of the country. | | | Even the Chinese people distinguish the written word from the spoken word, recognizing that the two are not the same. | | | This was the language used by the people who ruled China through the last dynasty, the Manchurian. |
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http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art30077.asp
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| | Spoken Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, etc) |
| | The major varieties of Chinese are mutually unintelligible, but most people in China and Taiwan who don't speak Mandarin as their first language, can speak or at least understand it a bit. | | | Instead it is written with the Cyrillic alphabet. | | | Chinese is a family of closely-related but mutually unintelligible languages. |
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http://www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese_spoken.htm
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| | Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks 3 |
| | For conferences concerning Chinese language teaching and related themes, see click under "Conferences" in the menubar in the CLTA Links, maintained at the Chinese Language Teachers Association Home Page. | | | The 14th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-14) will be held jointly with the 10th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-10). | | | Originally established as the Northeast Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NECCL)), some NACCL conferences are held in conjunction with IACL (ICCL) conferences. |
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http://chinalinks.osu.edu/c-links3.htm
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| | Chinese and its Dialects |
| | This page is part of other pages on China and the Chinese language. | | | A form of the Mandarin dialect has been taught in Taiwan as the preferred spoken dialect. | | | It was the only form of the characters used until the 20th Century. |
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http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/west_j/Asia/Dialects.html
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| | Chinese Language Page |
| | There are 885,000,000 people who speak Chinese all over the world, with the most speakers in China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Russia, the United States of America, Mongolia, Viet Nam, Brunei, South Africa, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Hong Kong. | | | Now you can say hello to 885,000,000 people! | | | Dialects usually refer to "regional forms of a language." However, many of the regional variants which are commonly referred to as "dialects" of the Chinese language are more different from one another than French is from Spanish or Norwegian is from Swedish! |
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http://www.uni.edu/becker/chinese.html
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| | [Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia in Chinese dialects |
| | Probably no one has ever spoken Classical Chinese, yet it has been the standard written language for thousands of years. | | | If we follow that line of thinking, then yes, since there is no public education in the world that teaches written Cantonese, we should not have an encyclopedia in it. | | | There are more and more articles and novels written in Cantonese. |
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http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-February/037233.html
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| | Chinese language and dialects from ALS International |
| | Chinese, unlike many other languages, denotes a large family of dialects and written forms. | | | The written forms of Chinese include a traditional alphabet and a simplified Chinese (Pinyin), which was originated in 1948 after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, to make the written lanuage more accessible to the general population. | | | With its tens of thousands of characters, Mandarin Chinese has only some than 400 syllables. |
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http://www.alsintl.com/languages/chinese.htm
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| | Language |
| | Chinese language is one of the most spoken languages in the world (See World Language and Population) and Hakka is one of the five major spoken languages(dialects) in mainland China with the following breakdown: (Journal of Asia and African Studies, No. 24, 1982) | | | Shanghai people call Mandarin a northern dialect, and called themselves southerners. | | | Brit., "Languages of the World") This statement may be particularly true for Meixien Hakka. |
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http://www.asiawind.com/hakka/language.htm
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| | Chinese Dialects |
| | Students will learn how the diverse historical forms of Chinese that underlie these texts are, or are not, reflected in the present day Chinese languages. | | | This course will survey the major Chinese dialects, their modern forms, their geographical distribution, and their history, from their earliest discernible origins to the present. | | | This course will use the diversity of the modern Chinese dialects as a lens through which to view and understand the diversity of the Chinese languages in earlier times. |
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http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~rsimmon/chi425syl.htm
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| | Yuen Ren Society 1999 Annual Conference |
| | In particular, special attention will be given toGuh's concern that local dialects in the 17th century presented a significant obstacle to the kind of effective corporate unity which Guh sought to foster among the scholar elite. | | | I have treated the jian and jian diminutive in some southern Chinese dialects as the substratum of the ancient Baiyue languages. | | | Guh aspired to resolve regional fragmentation among contemporary Chinese by reviving awareness, among all literati, of the ancient, authoritative pronunciations of the classical texts. |
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http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~rsimmon/YRS99.htm
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| | Chinese |
| | Chinese, subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see | | | Chinese comprises a number of variants; those that are mutually unintelligible are considered separate languages by some linguists but are classed among the many dialects of Chinese by others. | | | Chinese students claim to have been harassed by Kagawa Univ. prof+ (Kyodo World News Service) |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0811908.html
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| | Chinese spoken language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Within Chinese, there is a collective term for the Chinese written language (中文 zhōngwén), while there is no collective term that encompasses all of the variations of the spoken language. | | | Linguists divide the variations in spoken Chinese language into seven to ten groups. | | | See Is Chinese a language or a family of languages? |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_spoken_language
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| | Dialects |
| | This might due to the fact that in the ancient time, the southern part of China was regarded as a land of barbarians, as the occupants were not civilized. | | | In fact, the difference between these dialects are so great that some people might even consider them as different `languages'. | | | Chinese characters), the difference in the use of words can be so great that a non-Minnan speaker like me, though often can read and understand each individual character, but would not be able to decode what the words mean (cf. |
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http://www.fi.muni.cz/usr/wong/teaching/chinese/notes/node12.html.iso-8859-1
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| | Learn Chinese :: Chinese Course |
| | Mandarin is the most widely spoken form of Chinese and is the official language of the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. | | | With all Chinese dialects sharing one writing system of over 40,000 symbols - of which you have to study at least 3,000 in order to be considered literate! | | | of the world speaks some form of Chinese as its native language, making it the language with the most native speakers? |
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http://www.cactuslanguage.com/en/languages/chinese.php
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| | How Many Chinese Dialects Are There? |
| | But the question is even sticker than that, because South and Central China have a number of what are sometimes called "dialect groups" that are radically different from each other, and from the language of North China. | | | We are by all means interested in the question, but we don't know the answer. | | | These dialect groups (Yue, Min, Hakka, Wu, among the largest and best known) are arguably separate languages, and all have their own dialects, many of which are mutually unintelligible. |
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http://www.geocities.com/yuenrensociety/howmanydialects.html
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| | Chinese Dialects |
| | This map is the work of Paul Kratochvil, a Czech scholar who studied the problem in China during the 1950s. | | | Chinese is in one sense a single language because, generally, any two places speaking two different dialects of it can be linked by a chain of adjacent immediate places all of which understand their immediate neighbors without difficulty. | | | Any sharply defined scheme of division into dialects thus does less justice both to the underlying unity and to the local diversity. |
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http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Culture/language-dialects.html
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| | Chinese “Dialects” |
| | Why then are they referred to (especially by Chinese) “dialects”? | | | When do we call a language a dialect and when we do call it a separate language? | | | All Chinese languages share the same writing system using characters, which can be read by all literate Chinese speakers. |
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http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/chinese/aspect/languagedialect.html
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| | Marjorie Chan's Home Page [Ohio State University] |
| | Established in 1962, the Chinese Language Teachers Association, Inc. (CLTA) is a professional organization devoted to the study of Chinese language, culture, and pedagogy. | | | Chinese 231: Traditional Chinese Culture (Sp 05 syllabus) | | | If you are a prospective graduate student in some other department at The Ohio State University, do not email me with unsolicited attachments and requests for GA/GRships. |
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http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9
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| | Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks - ChinaLinks.osu.edu |
| | For those interested, the search engine also has an option to search the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) site. | | | For example, copy and paste into the search box in the Web Search (near the bottom of the page) the heading of the link to search "with the exact phrase", by using quotation marks around the phrase to be searched (e.g., "Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks"). | | | My apologies in advance that full-time teaching, student-advising, research, and other obligations and commitments (including maintaining this and other homepages) do not leave time to respond to inquiries and advice on learning methods and pedagogical resources, including multimedia courseware, language textbooks, and vendors; dialectology and other linguistics-related references and resources; and fonts and computer software. |
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http://chinalinks.osu.edu
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| | CHINA BOOKS: Chinese Dialects: Cantonese |
| | This is an easy to use reference pocket-sized book for Cantonese learners and tourists. | | | Handy, accurate, concise yet comprehensive, it is a dictionary for students of Cantonese and a practical guide for visitors to Hong Kong. | | | This book is designed for tourists and business professionals who are planning to travel to Hong Kong and would like to pick up a few Chinese words before they depart. |
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http://www.chinabooks.com.au/language/lndia_2.htm
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