目录 Preface Annotating Abbreviations Chapter One: An Overview of the Chinese Language Languages of the Han Chinese and Chinese Ethnic Groups Mandarin, Putonghua and Chinese Dialects Classic Chinese and Modern Chinese The Speech and Writing of Modern Chinese Chinese Characters and Their Changes Pinyin and the Computer Input of Chinese Characters
Chapter Two: The Phonology of Mandarin Chinese Classification and Representation of Pinyin Sounds Simple Initials Compound Initials Simple Finals Compound Finals Summary: All Pinyin Sounds Special Cases: Sound Change (Sandhi)
Chapter Three: Tones of Mandarin Chinese The Tone and Meaning in Mandarin Chinese Change of Tones in Context The Light Tone Suffix in Orientation Words Summary
Chapter Four: Chinese Words and Phrases Chinese Word Structures Content Words and Function Words Substantive Words Pre...
内容摘要 Languages of the han chinese and Chinese Ethnic Groups Hanyu, or the language of the Han nationality, commonly known as theMandarin Chinese, is certainly the language generally used by the Chinesepeople. Its standard form is also called Putonghua, Guoyu, or Huayu, respec-tively in Mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. But it is not theonly language used by all Chinese. This is because China is a big country with55 ethnic minorities in addition to the Han people, and most of them have theirown languages. Chinese linguists generally agree that the total number of lan-guages used by China s ethnic groups is over 80, with some ethnic groups us-ing more than one languages. Among these different languages, 30 have writ-ten forms. In terms of language genealogy, they are categorized into 5 differentfamilies: the Sino-Tibetan, Altai, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesian and Indo-European. Therefore, the phrase "C...
精彩内容 China, a country of appealing mysteries. The Chinese nation, a nation intermittently strong and weak, honorable and infamous, awake and asleep, with a history of fivemillennia at the shortest and probably longer, has experienced the higheststage of ancient civilization in the most prosperous dynasties of the world,and made indelible contributions to the advance of human societies. As theworld's biggest nation, the Chinese people account for approximately aquarter of the whole population on earth. And as a standing member of the UN Security Council, it is exerting enor-mous influence on international affairs. Economically speaking, it is theworld's largest consumer market and human resource reservoir, as well asthe largest base of processing industries. Over the recent three decades, China's opening to the world has broughtabout unprecedented contact with the people of all other countries, result-ing in great advancement of the Chinese society and drastic growth of itseconomy, which have drawn ever greater attention of the world. Now again as in the past when China was in its prime, the world find itimpossible to overlook China and its people.
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