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	Chinese language - The Encyclopedia
		Old Chinese (T:ä¸å¤æ¼¢èªS:ä¸å¤æ±è¯P:ShÃ nggÇ” HÃ nyÇ”), sometimes known as "Archaic Chinese," was the language common during the early and middle ZhÅu Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC), texts of which include inscriptions on bronze artifacts, the poetry of the ShÄ«jÄ«ng, the history of the ShÅ«jÄ«ng, and portions of the YÃ¬jÄ«ng (I Ching).
		Chinese is first known to have been written in Latin characters by Western Christian missionaries of the 16th century, but may have been written down by Western travelers or missionaries of earlier periods.
		Chinese morphology is strictly bound to a set number of syllables with a fairly rigid construction which are the morphemes, the smallest building blocks, of the language.
	www.the-encyclopedia.com /description/Chinese_language (6556 words)

	Chinese Language Encyclopedia Article @ Saluted.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		The idea of Chinese as a language family may suggest that China consists of several different nations, challenge the notion of a single Philippines "identification of the varieties of Chinese," and legitimize secessionist movements.
		Standard Mandarin is the process of transcribing a language in the Latin alphabet.
		Chinese is first known to have been written in Latin characters by Western edit of the Polynesians, but may have been written down by Western travelers or missionaries of earlier periods.
	www.saluted.net /encyclopedia/Chinese_language (6116 words)

	Department of Asian Studies
		Chinese is the most widely spoken language, and the language with the longest continuous written legacy, in the world.
		Chinese is tonal and tends to be monosyllabic in the sense that most of its syllables have an independent meaning even when they are part of multisyllabic words.
		Written Chinese, however, tends to be uniform in vocabulary and structure, regardless of the dialect of the speaker.
	www.unc.edu /depts/asia/program_chinese.html (1202 words)

	Chinese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		The Chinese language, spoken in the form of Standard Mandarin, is the official language of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan, as well as one of four official languages of Singapore, and one of six official languages of the United Nations.
		"Chinese (written) language" (pinyin: zh&333;ngwén) written in Chinese characters The terms and concepts used by Chinese to separate spoken language from written language are different from those used in the West, because of differences in the political and social development of China in comparison with Europe.
		Standard Mandarin is based on the Beijing dialect, which is the dialect of Mandarin as spoken in Beijing, and the governments intend for speakers of all Chinese speech varieties to use it as a common language of communication.
	chinese-language.iqnaut.net (5450 words)

	Writing Chinese
		There are two elements to the Chinese language: the spoken language, which includes a number of different dialects across the country, and the written language, which is based on individual symbols called characters.
		Chinese characters, or ideographs, are not phonetic symbols and they bear no relationship to the sound of the spoken language.
		Mandarin is the basis for standard written Chinese, the universal bond among Chinese of all dialects.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Jta/Ch/ChLAN1.htm (1029 words)

	Top 20 Chinese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Chinese is often thought to be a single language, though in fact regional variation between different variants/dialects is comparable to that of, for instance, the Romance language family; many variants of Chinese are different enough to be mutually incomprehensible.
		Old Chinese (T:ä¸å¤æ¼¢èªS:ä¸å¤æ±è¯P:ShÃ nggÇ” HÃ nyÇ”), sometimes known as 'Archaic Chinese', was the language common during the early and middle Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC), texts of which include inscriptions on bronze artifacts, the poetry of the Shijing, the history of the Shujing, and portions of the Yijing (I Ching).
		Written English, on the other hand, is at the opposite end of the scale, in that the individual symbols represent alphabetic letters, i.e.
	top20chinese.com (7053 words)

	Chinese written language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the May Fourth Movement of 1919, the formal standard for written Chinese was changed to báihuà, or Vernacular Chinese, which, while not completely identical to the grammar and vocabulary of Standard Mandarin, was based mostly on the dialects of modern spoken Mandarin.
		Nevertheless, the orthographies of Chinese dialects are not identical.
		Written colloquial Cantonese does exist however, and Cantonese is unique among non-Mandarin regional languages in having a widely used written colloquial standard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_writing (5007 words)

	Cantonese Chinese Language Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Cantonese speakers were the earliest Chinese immigrants in many of these countries and despite the more recent migration of Mandarin and Hokkien speakers, the Cantonese still form a majority among the Chinese population in most countries.
		Although Cantonese speakers typically write in Standard Written Chinese, it is possible to write Cantonese as it is spoken.
		In addition to the thousands of standard Chinese characters, there are several hundred dialectal characters in use in newspapers, comics, magazine articles, and even some novels, but written vernacular Cantonese is still generally rare.
	how-to-learn-any-language.com /e/languages/cantonese-chinese/index.html (2319 words)

	White Song FAQ about Mandarin vs. Cantonese and Chinese Translation
		Standard written Chinese is understandable to all Chinese dialects.
		Under these circumstances, the written Chinese translated by the Cantonese speaker will not be understandable to a Mandarin speaker, or to other Chinese with other dialects.
		For Chinese translation, White Song's translators always use simplified Chinese, the standard in the business community in China, unless otherwise requested.
	www.whitesong.com /english/faq_mandarin_cantonese_english.htm (330 words)

	Written Standard Chinese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		A series of elementary through advanced level Chinese language text developed for use at Yale by Hugh M. Stimson and Parker Po-fei Huang.
		These texts employ pinyin romanization, emphasize natural dialogue, full explanation of grammar, introduces a modern adult vocabulary, includes both simplified and unsimplified characters, offers a wide variety of materials for practice, and is equipped with audio tapes.
		Contents are devoted to Chinese history and culture and certain aspects of Sino-Western cultural interaction.
	www.yale.edu /fep/catalog/standard2.html (238 words)

	Written Cantonese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Please discuss this issue on the talk page or replace this tag with a more specific message.
		咗 zo2 (function word past tense) Standard Chinese: 了
		呢個this one->呢啲these, 快點=快啲=hurry) Standard Chinese: 的, 些, 點
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Written_Cantonese (2350 words)

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