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| | Chinese written language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The computerized processing of Chinese characters involves some special issues both in input and character encoding schemes, as the standard 100+ key keyboards of today's computers do not allow input of that many characters with a single key-press. | | | As a result, several characters are combined into one, and some characters have their written form altered to ease the glyph generation process by computing technologies at that time. | | | In the field of software and communications internationalization, CJK is a collective term for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and the rarer CJKV for the same plus Vietnamese, all of which are double-byte languages, as they have more than 256 characters in their "alphabet". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_written_language
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| | LDRC - Articles - Origins 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. | | | This system can be used to teach the more memory intensive logographic system, and is used to help foreigners, often found on street signs and other forms of instruction. | | | This was the first step in the development of the alphabetic system that exists for most cultures today. |
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http://www.ldrc.ca/contents/view_article/152
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| | Chinese Cultural Studies: The Chinese Language and Alphabet |
| | The membership and classification of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages is highly controversial. | | | The boundaries between one so-called language and the next are not always easyto define. | | | The mutual unintelligibility of the varieties is the main ground for referring to them as separate languages. |
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http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinlng2.html
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| | Written Chinese - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks |
| | 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. | | | However, 食 is the original word used by ancient Chinese, and is the word featured throughout the developing years). | | | The map on the right can give you an idea of the diversity of the Chinese spoken language. |
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http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Written_Chinese
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| | EthnoMed: Chinese Language Profile |
| | Chinese languages have been transliterated into the pinyin system since 1892 | | | In an attempt to make the Chinese language more understandable to the western world, China developed the "pinyin" (pin-yin) system. | | | Certifications for additional languages are being developed as needed. |
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http://ethnomed.org/ethnomed/cultures/chinese/chin_lang.html
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| | When we handle a written language on computers, there needs to be an encoded character set. | | | Although it’s now possible to handle some spoken languages on computers, discussions here are only for written languages. | | | In the computer industry, we normally recognize four East Asian written languages. |
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http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc18/papers/b19.doc
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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. | | | The term "Clavis Sinica" means "Key to the Chinese Language," and this innovative software is designed to be just that. | | | Now, with the help of Clavis Sinica, you can make your way through any digitized Chinese document—whether a simple story, a Tang dynasty poem, a textbook selection, or a news article on the Web—without the need for a dictionary. |
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http://www.clavisinica.com
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| | American Sign Language University |
| | In summary, I suggest that it may be easier for the Chinese to become knowledgeable in CSL than for an American to learn ASL. | | | Sign languages of the world are more similar than written/spoken languages | | | What about sign language in Chinese as compared to the American Sign Language (ASL)? |
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http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/topics/chinesesignlanguage.htm
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| | Clavis Sinica Chinese language learning software: Background and User Comments |
| | The text reader "annotates" Chinese texts with helpful lexical information about unfamiliar characters and phrases, while the dictionary windows "analyze" characters into their component parts and show their relationship to other characters that use the same parts. | | | 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. | | | The Chinese title of the program, Shi Wen Jie Zi, literally means "annotate texts, analyze characters." These four characters, then, concisely describe the two principal features of the program. |
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http://www.clavisinica.com/about.html
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| | History of the Chinese Language |
| | Besides a core vocabulary and sounds, Chinese and most related languages share features that make them unlike most Western languages: They are monosyllabic, have even less Inflection than English, and are tonal. | | | In fact, so many homonyms came to exist that ambiguity would have become intolerable if compound words had not simultaneously developed. | | | 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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| | 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. | | | A spoken language totally unrelated to most of those you may have studied so far, so you won't even find the familiarity of cognate vocabulary items. | | | This language is often called in the West "Mandarin Chinese" (i.e., the language of the bureaucracy), a reasonable translation for the imperial-period term guanhua |
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http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/spendelh/china/newguide.html
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| | Chinese Cultural Studies: The Chinese Language and Pronunciation |
| | The Chinese themselves have realized the advantages of an alphabetical system to render the language, for instance in computing. | | | A general introduction to The Chinese Language and Writing and | | | 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. |
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http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinlng1.html
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| | World Almanac for Kids |
| | As a result, and because of the increased interest in the development of science in Chinese education, curricula again came to resemble those of the pre–Cultural Revolution years. | | | Major efforts have also been directed toward modifying the written language. | | | Historically, however, few Chinese have been able to take the time to learn the complex language and its associated literature. |
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http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/nations/china.html
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| | Spoken Chinese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However, the linguistic distance between different Chinese dialects is often much greater than forms of speech in other parts of the world, and thus are unquestionably considered distinct languages. | | | However, it is written in the Cyrillic alphabet and may not be considered by all to be Chinese. | | | Whether these variants should be identified as languages or dialects is a contentious issue. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_spoken_language
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| | Chinese Written Art |
| | (An aid for students of the language; what could the Chinese language be but art? | | | (An educational web exhibition of the development of Chinese calligraphy.) | | | (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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| | 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. | | | Chinese script is often thought of as inefficient due the sheer number of them. | | | This opens the ways to comparing how the differences have amounted over time, and also to figure out the sounds of Chinese in more ancient times. |
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http://www.sungwh.freeserve.co.uk/sapienti/chinese.htm
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| | Chinese Script |
| | Such a complex and sophisticated script certainly has a history but so far we found no traces of its predecessors. | | | As is well known, written Chinese is not an alphabetic language, but a script of ideograms. | | | 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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| | Chinese Character for Love - Chinese Culture |
| | When you adore someone it is said as ai mu, a yearning for love. | | | The Chinese written language is based on ideograms, meaning symbols originally derived from ideas. | | | 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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| | Summary of Chinese Language and Its Origin (Cantonese, Mandarin) |
| | Summary of Chinese Language and Its Origin (Cantonese, Mandarin) | | | It is the most commonly used language in China, and one of the most commonly used languages in the world. | | | In addition to their functional value as symbols for records and communication, Chinese characters have an aesthetic value as calligraphy. |
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http://www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/china/pro-languages.htm
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| | Chinese script and language |
| | Chinese is written with characters known as 漢字 [汉字] (hànzi). | | | The Chinese writing system an open-ended one, meaning that there is no upper limit to the number of characters. | | | Mandarin, Shanghainese, Hokkien, Taiwanese and Cantonese language courses, dictionaries, etc. |
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http://www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese.htm
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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. | | | This sense of water as dynamic, moving, plays into other uses of water, as we will see. | | | As many of you know, the Chinese written language, like the hieroglyphic script of Egypt is largely, though not exclusively, pictorial. |
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http://witcombe.sbc.edu/water/religionchinalanguage.html
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| | 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. | | | Rarely, however, do the Chinese words actually mean anything when placed in sequence. | | | Seventh character: This is the Chinese word for "author." It indicates to readers that they have just finished reading the name of the book's author. |
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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 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. | | | The seventh course may be taught in either Chinese or English and must have Chinese literature, culture/civilization, or linguistics as a substantial component. |
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http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/asian/p_requir-c.htm
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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. | | | Chinese characters can be traced to a time when people making records in their daily life by tying knots in ropes or strings. |
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http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/orthography/chinese.html
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