They contain large numbers of words that are similar in Sino Tibetan languages.

Those cultures with a documentary corpus, such as the Tibetan, traditional Chinese or Ayurvedic cultures, were sometimes called systematic medicines .

Classical Chinese was used to write the Hunmin Jeongeum proclamation in which the modern Korean alphabet (hangul) was promulgated and the essay by Hu Shi in which he argued against using Classical Chinese and in favor of written vernacular Chinese.

I don't understand Chinese, but I want to learn.

With the financial assistance of Italy, Monaco and Switzerland, the material has now been translated and produced in Arabic, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

In practice there is a socially accepted continuum between vernacular Chinese and Classical Chinese.

Can you help me to translate these sentences into Chinese?

The case involved Chinese speaking children of Chinese immigrants who were placed in English medium education, with effectively no provision for any teaching through the medium of Chinese.

Between 1980 and 1981, he studied Russian at Harvard, and in 1984 he studied Chinese at Cambridge University.

In 1938, his family moved from Finland to Sweden, where Kyrklund studied Chinese, Russian, Persian and mathematics.

Confucius Institutes are sprouting from Sri Lanka to Nigeria to promote the study of Mandarin.

Today, pure Classical Chinese is occasionally used in formal or ceremonial occasions.

These latest verdicts are the first death sentences meted out by Chinese courts to those who took part in protests that swept Lhasa and other Tibetan cities in the spring of 2008.

Under the rule of the Emperor Trần Nhân Tông, the Vietnamese language was used for the first time as the second language in official scripts of the royal court, besides Chinese.

As in Hong Kong and Macau, Traditional Chinese is used as the writing system in Taiwan.

Few people dream of becoming Chinese, or of learning its various languages other than Mandarin.

A study by investment bank Natixis even suggests that by that time, French could be the most spoken language in the world, ahead of English and even Mandarin.

There are some uncommon publications in mixed writing, using mostly Chinese characters but using the Latin alphabet to represent words that cannot easily be represented by Chinese characters.

For example, most notices and formal letters are written with a number of stock Classical Chinese expressions (e.g.

) Exceptions to the use of Classical Chinese were vernacular novels such as Dream of the Red Chamber , which was considered vulgar at the time.

The temple Lavrin (18th century) in the Erdene Zuu lamasery was built in the Tibetan tradition.

Already the old Chinese and the Greek, Hippocrates, have actually published, documented, that T.B. can be diagnosed based on the volatiles exuding from patients.

The Chu Ci , as a preservation of early literature, has provided invaluable data for linguistic research into the history of the Chinese language, from Chen Di on.

Most government documents in the Republic of China were written in Classical Chinese until reforms in the 1970s, in a reform movement spearheaded by President Yen Chia kan to shift the written style to vernacular Chinese.

He studied the Chinese language, traveled extensively (researching data on the history, traditions and customs of the Chinese, which he intended to use as material for a book about life in contemporary China), and regularly sent detailed reports to the General Staff and Foreign Ministry.

China stated that requests for legal assistance to the Macao SAR would only be accepted by the Macao SAR in Chinese or Portuguese.

That Chinese invasion was intended to teach India a lesson for its support of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan resistance.

Tshangla, the language of the Sharchop and the principal pre Tibetan language of Bhutan, is spoken by a greater number of people.

China exports business people, nannies, students, teachers to teach Chinese around the region, to intermarry and to occupy ever greater commanding heights of the economies.

On November 26, 2012 about one thousand Tibetan students protested in Chabcha County, Qinghai Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (or Tsolho in Tibetan pronunciation) against a politically charged questionnaire on a Medical School campus.

Literary Chinese was used for almost all formal writing in China until the early 20th century, and also, during various periods, in Japan, Korea and Vietnam.

Teaching and use Classical Chinese was the main form used in Chinese literary works until the May Fourth Movement, and was also used extensively in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

He further helped systematize the written Chinese language by promulgating as the imperial standard the small seal script which had already been in use in the state of Qin.

According to Tibetan tradition, however, the Dalai Lama has no role in selecting or endorsing a Karmapa.

This has set the stage for the emergence of two rival Dalai Lamas, one chosen by China and the other by the Tibetan exile movement.

This kind of influence of the first language on the second is known as negative language transfer.

Language The official language of Jamaica is English.

The main language is colloquial Swahili, and the English language is extensively taught in schools.

Official status Swedish is officially the main language of Sweden.

Sociolinguistics differs from sociology of language in that the focus of sociolinguistics is the effect of the society on the language, while the sociology of language focuses on language's effect on the society.

Because it was a line from our Chinese parallel Susan Boyle a 50 some year old woman, a vegetable vendor in Shanghai, who loves singing Western opera, but she didn't understand any English or French or Italian, so she managed to fill in the lyrics with vegetable names in Chinese.

The 1977 Charter of the French Language established French as the official language of Quebec.

Latvian ( latviešu valoda ) is the official state language of Latvia.

This is a different language from Gagauz and Turkish.

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