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  2. Chinese language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language

    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 17% of the global population, speak a ...

  3. Erhua - Wikipedia

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    Erhua. Erhua ( simplified Chinese: 儿化; traditional Chinese: 兒化 [ɚ˧˥xwä˥˩] ); also called erization or rhotacization of syllable finals [1]) is a phonological process that adds r-coloring or the er ( 注音 : ㄦ, common words: 耳 、 尔 、 儿 [2]) sound (transcribed in IPA as [ɚ]) to syllables in spoken Mandarin Chinese.

  4. Mandarin Chinese - Wikipedia

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    A speaker from Tanghe ( Central Plains Mandarin) 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 ...

  5. Chinese speech synthesis - Wikipedia

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    Chinese speech synthesis is the application of speech synthesis to the Chinese language (usually Standard Chinese).It poses additional difficulties due to Chinese characters frequently having different pronunciations in different contexts and the complex prosody, which is essential to convey the meaning of words, and sometimes the difficulty in obtaining agreement among native speakers ...

  6. History of the Chinese language - Wikipedia

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    The earliest historical linguistic evidence of the spoken Chinese language dates back approximately 4,500 years, while examples of the writing system that would become written Chinese are attested in a body of inscriptions made on bronze vessels and oracle bones during the Late Shang period (c. 1250 – 1050 BCE), with the very oldest dated to c. 1200 BCE.

  7. List of varieties of Chinese - Wikipedia

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    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.

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