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The Chinese language is also called Sinitic (汉语 / 漢語 / Hànyǔ / 中文 / Zhōngwén). It is a sub-branch of a larger Sino-Tibetan. We also often name Standard Chinese, Mandarin, or Putonghua (Spoken). Chinese is the first language of 1.3 billion people worldwide (or about 16 percent of the global population).
In the Middle Chinese language spoken during that period, as reconstructed by William H. Baxter, 土番 was pronounced thu x-phjon, and 吐蕃 was pronounced thu x-pjon (with the x representing a shang tone). Other pre-modern Chinese names for Tibet include: Wusiguo (Chinese: 烏斯國; pinyin: Wūsīguó; cf. Tibetan: dbus, Ü, );
History. Although some terms from the ancient Chinese naming system, such as xìng (姓) and míng (名), are still used today, it used to be much more complex.. In the first half of the 1st millennium BC, during the Zhou dynasty, members of the Chinese nobility could possess up to four different names—personal names (míng 名), clan names (xìng 姓), lineage names (shì 氏), and "style ...
Mandarin ( / ˈmændərɪn / ⓘ MAN-dər-in; simplified Chinese: 官话; traditional Chinese: 官話; pinyin: Guānhuà; lit. 'officials' speech') is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard ...
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, [4] and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. [5]
Laos. / 17.967°N 102.600°E / 17.967; 102.600. Laos, [e] officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao PDR or LPDR ), [f] is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. At the heart of the Indochinese Peninsula, Laos is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and ...
Standard Chinese is the official spoken language of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, and is one of the official languages of Singapore. It has become a pluricentric language, with differences in pronunciation and vocabulary between the three forms.
