Luxist Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Chinese language - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language

   The 2016 edition of Xiandai Hanyu Cidian, an authoritative one-volume dictionary on modern standard Chinese language as used in mainland China, has 13,000 head characters and defines 70,000 words. Loanwords. Like many other languages, Chinese has absorbed a sizable number of loanwords from other cultures. Most Chinese words are formed out of ...

3. List of varieties of Chinese - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_varieties_of_Chinese

   Jin. Gan. Hakka. Xiang. Huizhou. Pinghua. "Chinese" is a blanket term covering many different varieties spoken across China. Mandarin Chinese is the most popular dialect, and is used as a lingua franca across China. Linguists classify these varieties as the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

4. Two Tigers (nursery rhyme) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Tigers_(nursery_rhyme)

   Two Tigers is a popular traditional Mandarin nursery rhyme called "Liang Zhi Lao Hu" in Mandarin.Variations adopt the tune of the French melody "Frère Jacques", "Where is Thumbkin", or the third movement of Mahler's "Symphony No. 1"

5. History of the Chinese language - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/.../History_of_the_Chinese_language

   Old Chinese. Old Chinese, sometimes known as "Archaic Chinese", is genetically related to all current Chinese languages. The first known use of the Chinese writing system is divinatory inscriptions into tortoise shells and oracle bones during the Shang dynasty (1766–1122 BCE). [8] During the first half of the Zhou dynasty (1122–256 BCE ...

6. Languages of China - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_China

   There are several hundred languages in China. The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages, collectively known as Hanyu ( simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ, 'Han language'), that are spoken by 92% of the population.

7. Varieties of Chinese - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varieties_of_Chinese

   Chinese eventually replaced many of the languages previously dominant in these areas, and forms of the language spoken in different regions began to diverge. During periods of political unity there was a tendency for states to promote the use of a standard language across the territory they controlled, in order to facilitate communication ...