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Countries and regions where Chinese is not native but an official or educational language. Countries with significant Chinese-speaking minorities. Sinophone, which means " Chinese -speaking", typically refers to an individual who speaks at least one variety of Chinese (that is, one of the Sinitic languages ).
- Han language circle
- 漢語圈
- 汉语圈
Sinophoneus is an extinct genus of carnivorous dinocephalian therapsid belonging to the family Anteosauridae. It lived 272 to 270 million years ago at the beginning of the Middle Permian (Lower Roadian) in what is now the Gansu Province in northern China. It is known by a skull of an adult individual (the holotype GMV1601), as well as by many ...
- †S. yumenensis
- †Sinophoneus, Cheng and Ji, 1996
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Chinese ( simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. ' Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages [e] spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. Approximately 1.35 billion people, or around 16% of the global population ...
- 1.35 billion (2022)
Sinophone literature, a term coined by Shu-mei Shih in 2004, denotes Sinitic-language literature written “on the margins of China and Chineseness.”. As an emerging field of inquiry, the Sinophone provides a conceptual alternative to the paradigm of China-based national literary studies; as an organizing category, the Sinophone evinces the ...
The Standard Chinese language is referred to as Mandarin in English, "Pǔtōnghuà" or "common to everybody speech" in mainland China and "Guóyǔ" or "language of the whole country" in Taiwan. All official documents in Pinyin are written in Mandarin and Mandarin is taught all over China.
- (1.2 billion cited 1984–2000)
the term Sinophone for largely denotative pur-poses to mean "Chinese-speaking" or "written in Chinese." Sau-ling Wong used it to desig-nate Chinese American literature written in "Chinese" as opposed to English ("Yellow"); historians of the Manchu empire such as Pam-ela Kyle Crossley, Evelyn S. Rawski, and Jona-than Lipman described "Chinese ...
Nov 8, 2012 · « previous post | next post » Within the last ten years or so, the concept of "Sinophone" (obviously modeled on "Francophone," "Anglophone", etc.) has come to be very much in vogue. To the best of my knowledge, the term was coined by UCLA professor Shu-mei Shih, but it was soon picked up by many other scholars and quickly became one of the hottest topics of discussion in Chines
