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History of Chinese Language: Part I

Prepared by Alex Yu

Chinese language is one of the most popular languages in the world, and it is also one of the oldest writing systems in the world. Linguists believe Chinese language belongs to the Chinese-Tibetan language family, including Tai, and Laos. In history, Chinese language had been the lingua franca, used widely by various countries in East Asia. To understand the history of Chinese language can help us to understand the development of Chinese culture and its interactions with the other civilizations in Asia. Here is what we know about the history of Chinese language.

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 Chinese (or called Sinitic language, because Most linguists think that all of modern spoken Chinese as part of the Sino-Tibetan, but it still is a debatable topic  in history.) is a language family consisting of languages which are mostly mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. About one-fifth of the world’s population speaks some variety of Chinese as their native language. That’s why people said that Chinese is the language which is most people to speaking and English is the language which is most people to use. Internal divisions of Chinese didn’t think that Chinese is separate languages, they are usually perceived by their native speakers as dialects of a single Chinese language. There was the language which is called Old Chinese (Archaic Chinese) common during the early & middle Zhou Dynasty. Middle Chinese was during Southern and Northern Dynasties, and also used during Suí, Táng, and Sòng dynasties. And before today’s Chinese language, Chinese got a lot change in history. There are name types of Chinese, will, not really called Chinese, it’s called dialect, such as Min Nan, Wu…  Now, in China, most people are using  Mandarin (Putonghua)   and   Cantonese. But during these two Influential languages, Mandarin is becoming increasingly influential after the 1997 handover.  By:JYH