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A branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family which is mostly spoken in China and consists of many spoken varieties, including the standard and most prominent variety, Mandarin. For non-linguistic questions about the Chinese language, visit our sister site Chinese Language Stack Exchange.
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Generic name for Hànzì/Kanji/Hanja/Chữ nôm/Sawndip?
Those scripts are usually referred to as the Chinese family of scripts:
Chinese family of scripts are writing systems descended from the Chinese Oracle Bone Script and used for a variety of languages … They include logosyllabic systems such as the Chinese script itself (or hanzi, now in two forms, traditional and simplified), and adaptations to other languages, such as Kanji (Japanese), Hanja (Korean …
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Besides lexicon and phonology, what are the biggest differences in Mandarin that are hard fo...
What can be difficult is highly personal and mother-tongue-dependent, so let me mention just two features of Chinese that seem hard to master, as for me. … Classifiers can pose a difficulty, since they are not used in European languages, they are an areal feature of East Asian languages, and there are many and many dozens of them in Chinese. …
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How does one learn the meaning of a new symbol in Chinese?
It's very easy to find a Chinese character in a dictionary even if it isn's known to you and you don't know its pronunciation. … Naturally, to do that you've got to know how to use Chinese dictionaries. …
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What is the IPA notation for Chinese zuo4cuo4 做错?
Pinyin: zuò cuò
IPA: [t͡swo˥˩ t͡sʰwo˥˩]
The difference between the Pinyin z and c is that the latter is aspirated.
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Is Mongolian "шинэ" / "ᠰᠢᠨᠠ", meaning "new", a borrowing of Chinese "新"?
This word can well be connected with its Chinese counterpart. The Old Mongolian for it is sine, the Kitan (Super Old Mongolian) is *shen. …
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Can the Chinese script be used to record non-Chinese languages?
Aparently, it used the Chinese characters to mean what they meant in Chinese, but they were pronounced in Thai, in a similar way to Vietnamese. … the same it means in Chinese, only they pronounced it the way the concept was named in their language. …
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Replacing Chinese characters with pinyin forever as Vietnamese did
It would be possible to use pinyin even without the tone marks to write down Chinese and it will be correctly understood. … Dungan is a dialect of Mandarin Chinese used by Muslims, this orthography functions in all spheres of life – at school, in books, newspapers, etc. …
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