Chinese - An Ongoing non-Alphabetical Language Analytical Essay by Top Papers
Chinese - An Ongoing non-Alphabetical Language
An examination and discussion of the Chinese language.
# 135218
| 750 words
| 0 sources
| MLA
| 2007
| 
Published
on Dec 01, 2007
in
Communication
(Language and Speech)
, Asian Studies
(General)
, Linguistics
(General)
, Language
(General)
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The paper relates that the Chinese script is indigenous to China and has shown itself to be adaptable through many centuries, a pictographic and ideographic medium that can be read and used by speakers of various Han languages. The paper notes its usefulness to an imperial power and to classical literature and scholarship, and shows how it was used after 1958 to serve the Communist campaign towards mass literacy.
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"China did not develop as an alphabetical language for reasons to come into view when one recognizes that its script is the first language of about 25 per cent of the world's population. It was used earlier in Japan, Korea and Vietnam and remains the written or printed medium of Mandarin and several other important Chinese languages. David Crystal explained how it is a single method of writing that unites Chinese and a shared literary and cultural history. (1987, 137-138) The Chinese refer to eight languages as dialects of Mandarin that are really distinct, about as close as French..."Cite this Analytical Essay:
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"Chinese - An Ongoing non-Alphabetical Language" 01 December 2007.
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