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  2. Erhua - Wikipedia

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    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 ( 儿; 兒 [ɚ]) sound to syllables in spoken Mandarin Chinese. Erhuayin ( 儿化音; 兒化音) is the pronunciation of "er" after ...

  3. 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.

  4. Standard Chinese phonology - Wikipedia

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    The phonology of Standard Chinese has historically derived from the Beijing dialect of Mandarin. However, pronunciation varies widely among speakers, who may introduce elements of their local varieties. Television and radio announcers are chosen for their ability to affect a standard accent.

  5. Languages of China - Wikipedia

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    There are several hundred languages in China.The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages, collectively known as Hanyu (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ, 'Han language'), that are spoken by 92% of the population.

  6. Historical Chinese phonology - Wikipedia

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    Historical Chinese phonology deals with reconstructing the sounds of Chinese from the past. As Chinese is written with logographic characters, not alphabetic or syllabary, the methods employed in Historical Chinese phonology differ considerably from those employed in, for example, Indo-European linguistics; reconstruction is more difficult because, unlike Indo-European languages, no phonetic ...

  7. History of the Chinese language - Wikipedia

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    The earliest historical linguistic evidence of the spoken Chinese language dates back approximately 4500 years, [1] 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), [2] [3] with the very ...

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