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| | Chinese written language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | As with other aspects of the Chinese language, the contrast between different written standards is not sharp and there can be a socially accepted continuum between the written standards. | | | Written colloquial Cantonese does exist however, and Cantonese is unique among non-Mandarin regional languages in having a widely used written colloquial standard. | | | The language used in the ceremonial document may be completely different from that of the love letter, but there is a socially accepted continuum existing between the two. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_written_language
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| | Written Chinese - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks |
| | The written language can, of course, be spoken as usual as you do when reading aloud an English passage; however the language used in everyday lives are different from the written forms. | | | In contrast, the southern part of China has managed to retain the features of the original language (for example, 食 - eat, is the word used in spoken Cantonese, yet it should be replaced by the mandarin 吃 in all written forms. | | | Mandarin is a language based on the original northern dialects recently half-invented in order to unify the spoken language used throughout China. |
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http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Written_Chinese
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| | World Almanac for Kids |
| | This dialect was declared the common language at the National Conference on Reform of the Chinese Written Language in 1955. | | | Major efforts have also been directed toward modifying the written language. | | | The official spoken language of the Chinese is Putongua (“standard speech”); it is sometimes known to Westerners as Mandarin and is the dialect of North China. |
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http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/nations/china.html
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| | LDRC - Articles - Origins of Written Language. |
| | Languages such as Hebrew and Arabic are written without vowels; vowel sounds are predicted by the context of words and other letters. | | | There was no direct link between spoken language and this form of written language. | | | The Phoenicians system was considered inefficient by the Greeks; their language was more complex and not easily interpretable with the Phoenician system. |
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http://www.ldrc.ca/contents/view_article/152
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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. | | | Written records date from the 8th century AD, treating largely of Buddhist religious subjects. |
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http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinlng2.html
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| | History of the Chinese Language |
| | 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. | | | The Chinese written language is of an old and conservative type that assigns a single distinctive symbol, or character, to each word of the vocabulary. | | | Although they employ a common written form, they are mutually unintelligible and for this reason are sometimes referred to as languages; the differences among them are analogous to the differences in pronunciation and vocabulary among the Romance languages. |
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http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Culture/language-history.html
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| | Summary of Chinese Language and Its Origin (Cantonese, Mandarin) |
| | All of China's 55 minority people have their own languages, except the Hui and Manchu, who use Chinese; 23 of these have a written form. | | | It is the most commonly used language in China, and one of the most commonly used languages in the world. | | | Written Chinese emerged in its embryonic form of carved symbols approximately 6,000 years ago. |
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http://www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/china/pro-languages.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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| | Chinese Script |
| | As is well known, written Chinese is not an alphabetic language, but a script of ideograms. | | | Judging from those unearthed from ancient tombs, royal decrees and statutes were written on slips 68 cm long, texts of the classics on 56-cm-long slips, and private letters on 23 cm ones. | | | The characters are written in a style called dazhuan (big seal character) and have been taken as the "earliest model of zhuan-style writing", important to the development and studies of Chinese calligraphy. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/chinascript.html
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| | Guide for New Students / Chinese Language |
| | This means that the Chinese written language has proven extremely useful as a unifying device over time, as the spoken language has evolved, and over space, in a country where many different (and often mutually unintelligible) languages are spoken. | | | Yale, which is used occasionally in journals and language texts. | | | In using the generic term "Chinese," we are referring to the language common to the northern part of the country and which has been adopted as a national standard by the government[s] of China (even though Cantonese, Fukienese, etc., have equal claim to be called "Chinese"). |
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http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/spendelh/china/newguide.html
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| | Chinese Character for Love - Chinese Culture |
| | The Chinese written language is based on ideograms, meaning symbols originally derived from ideas. | | | It is the basis of the word love in the Chinese language. | | | Within this language, there are over 50,000 distinct combinations of characters that make up the Chinese language. |
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http://www.bellaonline.com/ArticlesP/art28684.asp
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| | Chinese Written Language and its Influence |
| | It was thought that the language of chinese would oneday be entirely written by a roman alphabet known as the PinYin system. | | | However the persistence of the written word seems unshakeable. | | | Language reforms started at the beginning of the modern period, with the collapse of the Qing government, has introduced new characters. |
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http://www.sungwh.freeserve.co.uk/sapienti/chinese.htm
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| | Spoken Chinese - 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. | | | Chinese makes a very strong distinction between written language (文 wén) and spoken language (语/語 yǔ), and Chinese tend to conceptualize the variations of Chinese as different spoken languages which use a common written standard and share a literary and cultural tradition. | | | On the other hand, in the Republic of China on Taiwan, the government had a policy until the mid-1980s of promoting Standard Mandarin as high-status and the local languages—Taiwanese and Hakka—as low-status, a situation which caused much resentment and resulted in considerable backlash in the 1990s, manifested in the Taiwanese localization movement. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_spoken_language
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| | Chinese script and language |
| | Chinese is written with characters known as 漢字 [汉字] (hànzi). | | | The earliest recognisable examples of written Chinese date from 1500-950 BC (Shang dynasty) and were inscribed on ox scapulae and turtle shells - "oracle bones". | | | Chinese characters, with some modifications, are also used in written Japanese and Korean, and were once used to write Vietnamese. |
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http://www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese.htm
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| | Chinese Cultural Studies: The Chinese Language and Pronunciation |
| | The written language originally had no alphabet, but it was easily understood by literate people no matter what dialect they spoke. | | | There are two elements to the Chinese language: the written language, based on individual symbols called characters, each of which represents an idea or thing; and the spoken language, which includes a number of different dialects. | | | Written Chinese characters have no "pronunciation" and can be spoken in a variety of ways depending on the dialect used. |
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http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinlng1.html
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| | H2O - The Mystery, Art, and Science of Water: Water in Classical Chinese Religion: Chinese Language |
| | Chinese written language is able to describe a wealth of ideas and create new words by combining and recombining character elements or radicals. | | | As many of you know, the Chinese written language, like the hieroglyphic script of Egypt is largely, though not exclusively, pictorial. | | | H2O - The Mystery, Art, and Science of Water: Water in Classical Chinese Religion: Chinese Language |
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http://witcombe.sbc.edu/water/religionchinalanguage.html
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| | Chinese Characters |
| | Hence, to have a better understanding about Chinese people is to understand the written Chinese. | | | Words formed by taken from other word according to its sound and meanings that the original word is lacking. | | | The most acceptable legend of the inventor of Chinese writing was a minister named Ts'ang Chieh, who records the history in the court of Emperor Huang Ti, the first king of China. |
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http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/orthography/chinese.html
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| | Clavis Sinica Chinese language learning software: Background and User Comments |
| | Much like Müller's original key, this software attempts to reveal the structure and patterns to be found in the Chinese written language, and to encourage the student to recognize and build upon connections among related elements of the language as an important stepping stone to true literacy. | | | Taken together, the four characters of the Chinese title are also intended as an allusion to the great Shuo Wen Jie Zi, an analytical dictionary written by the scholar Xu Shen during the Eastern Han dynasty and the first full-fledged dictionary in Chinese history. | | | The Clavis Sinica software was developed by a faculty member at the University of Michigan as a supplementary learning tool for English-speaking students of the Chinese language. |
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http://www.clavisinica.com/about.html
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| | American Sign Language University |
| | Because Chinese is already a pictorial language, the connection between the written language and that of the CSL becomes tighter than even in ASL. | | | The written language has been unified, simplified and altered over the centuries, but the spoken language depends completely on the enunciation that varies from region to region of the specific pictures. | | | Even though both sign languages have established the formal connection to written language by defining a set of symbols for the fundamental units, the alphabet in English and the alphabetized pronunciation of Chinese word sounds, most of the sign language needed for daily communication are by pictures and by actions, coupled by facial expressions. |
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http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/topics/chinesesignlanguage.htm
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| | b19.doc |
| | One of the biggest differences between Hong Kongs written Chinese language and Taiwans written Chinese language is that there are many Chinese characters used in Hong Kong that are not used or not frequently used in Taiwan. | | | Hong Kong's written Chinese language is normally treated as Traditional Chinese, but there are many characters used in Hong Kong and Mainland China but not frequently used in Taiwan. | | | (Historical Vietnamese could be added in this group of written languages.) Hong Kongs written Chinese language and Taiwans written Chinese language are both normally treated as Traditional Chinese, but there seem to be many differences between them. |
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http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc18/papers/b19.doc
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| | chinesename.html |
| | The Chinese written language consists of characters that represent complete words and concepts, rather than single letters that represent sounds the way the English language does. | | | So when Chinese translators need to write a non-Chinese name in their language, they try to choose Chinese characters which, when pronounced, sound something like the name they wish to translate. | | | It is a way of representing the final "l" in the name "Vidal." Chinese words can begin with an "l" or "r" sound, but there is no final "l" sound. |
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http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/chinesename.html
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| | Georgetown University Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures - |
| | The Chinese major combines thorough training in spoken and written Chinese language with the development of critical approaches to a broad range of Chinese cultural phenomena including classical and modern literature, visual arts, film, popular culture, and underlying aspects of philosophical and social thought. | | | The Chinese minor requires seven courses, at least six of which must be Chinese language courses or advanced courses conducted in Chinese. | | | A minimum of two years of study of an Asian language is also required. |
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http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/asian/p_requir-c.htm
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| | Learn Chinese with Clavis Sinica Chinese language reading and dictionary software |
| | Because using a Chinese dictionary is so cumbersome, reading unfamiliar texts can be a frustrating experience for even experienced students of the written language. | | | Combining a versatile Chinese text reader with a comprehensive and richly cross-referenced Chinese dictionary, this powerful new program will enable you to overcome the biggest barriers to learning the world's most widely used language. | | | Whether you are a relative beginner or an advanced student of the language, you will find Clavis Sinica an indispensible learning tool that makes the study of Chinese a more productive, enjoyable, and intellectually rewarding experience. |
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http://www.clavisinica.com
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| | Chinese Written Art |
| | (This example of the beginnings of Chinese written language dates back to the Shang Dynasty.) | | | (Part of the roots of Chinese written language; dating from the Shang Dynasty.) | | | (The grace of the original language of Laozi can't be overestimated.) |
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http://www.mindground.net/chnwritten.html
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| | Written Cantonese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The vernacular language movement took hold, and the written language was standardized as Vernacular Chinese. | | | Because written Cantonese is not really a standard written language, there can be many discrepancies in the way certain words are written. | | | Written Cantonese refers to the written language used to write colloquial standard Cantonese using Chinese characters. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Cantonese
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| | Chinese written language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As with other aspects of the Chinese language, the contrast between different written standards is not sharp and there can be a socially accepted continuum between the written standards. | | | Written colloquial Cantonese does exist however, and Cantonese is unique among non-Mandarin regional languages in having a widely used written colloquial standard. | | | Even so, Cantonese speakers will use standard written Chinese in most formal written communications. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_written_language
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| | Chinese written language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As with other aspects of the Chinese language, the contrast between different written standards is not sharp and there can be a socially accepted continuum between the written standards. | | | The Chinese language has been written for nearly 4000 years. | | | The complex interaction between the Chinese written and spoken languages can be illustrated with Cantonese. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_written_language
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| | Written Chinese Characters |
| | Due to it's non-phonetic nature it was able to serve as a unifying language for the dozens of Chinese ethnic groups with different dialects (as long as they learned the written symbols) spread out over a huge land area. | | | There are several dialects of Chinese spoken around the world, but there is only one, universal WRITTEN language which is understood by everyone (who can read.) | | | Written Chinese characters are based on ideograms, or 'idea-pictures', which graphically represent ideas and objects using written characters derived directly from actual diagrams of the subject. |
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http://www.eslisland.com/life/WrittenChineseCharacters.htm
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