Chinese language

(Wu, Xiang, Min, etc.)

(mandarin) In 1911, at the fall of the Qing dynasty, there was not a standard language in China, instead there were various forms of dialects

the principles of the language along with the symbols and characters have remained basically the same.

Although the written system has been altered over time due to revolutions and political changes??

Mandarin

Chinese languages have been transliterated into the pinyin system since 1892, but it was been more widely used since the creation of

Pinyin

Developed in an attempt to make the Chinese language more understandable to the western world.

yeah, thats about it

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globalization

It was developed to standardize the language for the country because of ?? (mandarin)

Mandarin

It wasn't until 1916 that there was an official language which is now know is

Yuen Ren Chao who was a native Wu speaker linguist

Mandarin was developed by the government but mainly

Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties (6th through 10th centuries AD)

Middle Chinese was the language used during the??

8th and 3rd centuries BC

Modern Chinese dialects evolved between the ???

early and middle Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)

Old Chinese, sometimes known as "Archaic Chinese," was the language common during the ??

6,000 years

Oldest language with a history of over ???

familiar with the western alphabet and are learning to speak Mandarin Chinese

People who use pinyin are those who are more

single distinctive symbols, or characters

The Chinese written language uses what to represent each word of the vocabulary??

pronunciation and vocabulary

The differences in dialect are due to the different?

40,000

A large dictionary usually contains ?? characters.

they are able to understand each other in writing.

Even though people are not able to verbally communicate in different provinces?

spoken sounds that have meaning

The vast majority of characters are written versions of

Pinyin

This system uses the western alphabet and spelling to pronounce Chinese words.