Abstract:"Chinese is only one of a very few languages whose history is documented in an unbroken tradition extending back to the second millennium BC" (Norman 1988: ix). There are two main causes for this situ..."Chinese is only one of a very few languages whose history is documented in an unbroken tradition extending back to the second millennium BC" (Norman 1988: ix). There are two main causes for this situation: (i) the unity of Chinese culture in spite of periods of political disunity; (ii) the use of a script which has been independent of any particular phonetic manifestation of the languages it represented.Read More
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-04-10
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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