Chinese Dialects

Currently, there are an estimated 64 million speakers of Cantonese compared to the 1 million Taishanese speakers in Taishan and over 1.3 million Taishanese speakers in other places such as the United States, Canada, and Australia.

The different of Chinese and Japanese not only from 3 sides are already discussed. The intonation of speak Chinese and Japanese have different who can be used for their identity that they come from Chinese or Japanese. Chinese people has a louder voice and manner of speaking that’s more rugged. If you hear the Chinese people was speaking, sure sounds like the angry person or fight. Cause in Mandarin, has 4 intonations to use in dialogue. Different from Japanese who hasn’t intonation to using in dialogue, so it’s sounds smoother and

Description: Advanced Placement Chinese Language and Culture (commonly known as AP Chinese Language and Culture or AP Chinese) offers high school students an opportunity to earn credit for Chinese courses at the college level. Like other College Board programs, it is available to anyone worldwide who wishes to participate.

Furthermore, the language, art, and celebrations are a few of the intriguing aspects of the Chinese culture. Initially, there are seven dominant dialects of the Chinese language. Each of these languages also have their own variations. For instance, Mandarin dialects are spoken by 71.5 percent, Wu 8.5 percent, and Yu (also known as Cantonese) 5

The language of our people is English, like Americans, and Mandarin, due to Chinese influence. English is taught in the beginning of a child's school experience up until graduation.

Dialect is when people use different words for everyday objects or feelings depending on the area of a country they come from. In some areas of England people say “Innit” instead of “Isn’t it” or “summit” instead of “something”. It may cause confusion if someone says “ave got a pain in my head” instead of, “I’ve got a headache”.

As I have already mentioned, Singapore has four official languages: English, Tamil, Mandarin and Malay. It was so historically formed that the official language of Singapore is Malay and the national anthem is also written in Malay language. English is the administration language of Singapore and it is mainly British English, but also contain some American English influences. English remains the first language medium in schools and colleges of the country, and is also the most widespread language in the literature. All signs and official publications are written in English, but there are also versions translated into other official languages. But the population doesn’t speak English, but so-called Singlish with Creole characteristics, Chinese dialects, and Indian and Malay languages.

China has the largest population of any country on our planet Earth, with more than 1.35 billion people.

- Therefore, Chinese language, especially the Mandarin are the mainly language spoken at home except for English. There are totally 2.9% Chinese-born people in Australia spoke Chinese, including Mandarin, Cantonese and Chinese, nfd, while 76.76% of people spoke English. Thus, around 400 out of 13763 people spoke Chinese in the year 2011.

The three churches mentioned above are mainly using Chinese and Cantonese. The last kind of Chinese Christianity mentioned in lee's article was founded by ABCs, and they mainly use English in the church. Their members are not only Chinese but also other Asian.

The Chinese alphabet is very different from the others because characters represent whole ideas, concepts, or words. The dialect does not determine the symbols to be used and they are uniform throughout the different dialects. Chinese people speak the Mandarin and Cantonese. Cantonese dialect happens to be common and it is mainly spoken in the south while Mandarin is common in the northern part of the country. It is worth noting that a dialect is the way words are pronounced but not how they are written. Moreover, it is

     The Chinese language is one of the oldest and complicated language in the world. Chinese language is single syllable which is the

Among the most important concepts to emerge are those relating to dialects and language standards. Sociolinguists have documented the presence of dialects in every language. These dialects, all of which are legitimate, are associated with educational, economic, social and historical conditions. Hence, even if an individual scrupulously studies all the possible dictionaries of a random language, he would still be somewhat of a stranger to that language since he is unaware of all the dialectal changes.

For this assessment I have been required to compare English with another language. I have decided to choose Mandarin as my language of choice. A major elements of languages will be compared in this essay. That being phonology. Phonology is defined as being “the study of the way speech sounds form patterns”.(Victoria Fromkin 2009). As (Hammond 1999) describes, every spoken language has a unique system whereby sounds are organised. This unique pattern of pattern can be termed phonology and varies widely in geographical and social differences.

The verbal languages spread across China is one of diversity, the dialectal variances between areas within China is amazing. The history surrounding the spoken languages in China is also rather remarkable. “When a republic was declared in 1912, there was no common spoken language in China. Yes. Imperial officials had communicated in tongue used by the elites in Beijing. But the rest of the vast country was linguistically fractured…The lack of a common tongue has always seemed to threaten the daunting