The Chinese Language And Symbols

Presented by: Andrew Weimer

How Special Chinese Language IsTheir language is a phenomenon in the

modern world of ancient scripts

Their symbols are always written with special utensils

To us in the United States, these symbols are art

China’s Language EvolvesChina evolved from earlier, non linguistic

symbolic systems

Their language has become more complex ever since it had started in ancient times

China’s symbols and language are still very common today

Earlier Times Of The LanguageWhen the symbols were being developed,

ideograms were createdIdeogram: a written symbol that represents an

idea or object directly rather than a particular word or speech sound, such as a Chinese character

They used their symbols in war so nobody else could understand them

At first the symbols weren't very complex

Types, Origin, DetailsTheir language is monosyllabic - having only

one syllable, as the word no. Their Unicode alias is “Han

In their orthography their characters are largely morphosyllabic each corresponding to a spoken syllable with a distinct meaning

The Chinese type of language is logographic

definitionsLogographic: of, pertaining to, or using logograms

Unicode: computing a character set for all languagesOrthography : the study of established correct spelling

monosyllabic - having only one syllable, as the word no.

When learning itTheir language is traditional and for them, learning it is like learning how to walk

They have a special form of sign language and it can be very complicated when learning it

They’ve shown that functional literacy requires a knowledge of between 3 and 4 thousand characters!

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Times for the ChineseThe Chinese have used their language since

1500 B.C.

Later on in time they started using their symbols in books

When it began to now the language has sometimes been called “Hanzi”

meanings of symbolsThe Chinese symbol for create is of eight

individuals on a floating vessel were destroyed

This means rain:

This means sun:

Amazing Facts!Instead of using a few letters they’ve

developed thousands of characters!

The Chinese have updated their language many times!

Their language took many long years to develop and become an official language

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