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Do non-tonal languages evolve into tonal languages?
I have read that the language in China did not always use tones or was less reliant on them. Native speakers have emphasized to me how much more compactly the same idea can be expressed in Mandarin ...
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What happened to the number of english speakers in february 2018?
I recently noticed that English was in front of Mandarin in the Wikipedia list of languages by total number of speakers, so I wondered when it became first. I didn't find any convenient statistics on ...
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Is there a source that lists English Loanwords into Mandarin Chinese?
Is there a source(database, dataset, etc.) that lists English Loanwords into Mandarin Chinese?
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