How to write Chinese characters: Lesson 1
Chinese is spoken by about 1 3 billion people mainly in the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China ak one Taiwan, Singapore and other parts of Southeast Asia there are also Chinese speaker communities in many other parts of the world.
The different varieties of Chinese are known nGy f n, which is translated into regional languages, toplects, dialects or varieties The English dialect term usually refers mutually intelligible varieties of one language, although the distinction between dialects and language is often sociological and political reasons rather than Chinese language Chinese usually refer as the only language with a number of dialects or varieties However, there is little mutual intelligiblity between different varieties of Chinese and accordingly, some linguists non- Chinese call them distinct languages.
A distinction is made in China between the spoken and written language in China, the written form of Chinese, which is perceived to be uniform throughout the country is called zh ngw n, while the terms are or hu are used in names Chinese spoken varieties, for example, mandarin Chinese is known as h ny Han language, or the language pt nghu common in China also is refered as gu are national language or hu are Chinese language the hn word is used to denote the Chinese people and has the Han dynasty 206 BC - 220 AD.
Chinese belongs to the Sinitic or Chinese branch of the family of Sino-Tibetan languages Modern varieties of all Chinese are descended from Middle Chinese, was said in China during Dynasties of the South and the North, and Sui Tang and Song dynasties c 5th to 12th centuries AD, and which developed from Chinese old was said during the Shang and Zhou dynasties and the Warring States period c 1600-256 BC.
spoken Chinese traditional varieties are grouped into the following major groups.
The main Chinese writing is based primarily on the Mandarin spoken by educated people in Beijing.
Chinese is written with characters pm nz represent both sound and meaning in Chinese words can be composed of one or more syllables and each syllable is represented by one character There are relatively few types of Chinese syllable talked - about 1700 to Mandairn, compared to languages like English with over 8000 - but there are tens of thousands of characters as a result, there are several characters for each syllable, each of which has a different meaning this type writing system is known as the semantic and phonetic name, logophonetic morpho, logographic or logosyllabic.
R nr n sh ng r z u y, z i z ny n h Qu nl sh ng y l p ngd ng T men f y u L x ng h li NGX n, b ng y ng y xi ngd gu nx j ngsh n h xi ng of d i.
R n r n sh zh ng y j n u n f that y u q zh ng r n w i b r d.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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