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    The Sinitic languages (simplified Chinese: 汉语族; traditional Chinese: 漢語族; pinyin: Hànyǔ zú), often synonymous with the Chinese languages, are a group of...
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    speakers of Sinitic languages. Other Sino-Tibetan languages with large numbers of speakers include Burmese (33 million) and the Tibetic languages (6 million)...
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    different Sinitic languages into Taiwan. These languages include Taiwanese Hokkien, Hakka, and Mandarin, which have become the major languages spoken in...
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    own, the lexical and typological similarities among Hmong–Mien and Sinitic languages being attributed to contact-induced influence. Paul K. Benedict, an...
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    'Han language'), that are spoken by 92% of the population. The Chinese (or 'Sinitic') languages are typically divided into seven major language groups...
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  • Sino-Tibetan proto-language and the common ancestor of all languages in it, including the Sinitic languages, the Tibetic languages, Yi, Bai, Burmese,...
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    a long-range linguistic proposal that links the Sinitic languages (Chinese) and the Uralic languages. Sino-Uralic is proposed as an alternative to the...
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    The Tibeto-Burman languages are the non-Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan language family, over 400 of which are spoken throughout the Southeast Asian...
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    Romance languages and perhaps even as much as Indo-European languages as a whole. These varieties form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family...
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  • Syllabic consonant (category Articles with text in West Germanic languages)
    'spine', рѓа [ˈr̩ɟa] 'to rust', рчи [ˈr̩t͡ʃi] 'to snore', etc. Several Sinitic languages, such as Cantonese and Hokkien, feature both syllabic m ([m̩]) and...
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  • French (partially) Kalto Austronesian languages Hawaiian Māori Sino-Tibetan languages Burmese Sinitic languages (including Mandarin and Cantonese) Classical...
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  • Palatalization (sound change) (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
    occurred during the historical development of the Romance languages. Some groups of the Romance languages underwent more palatalizations than others. One palatalization...
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    Sino-Tibetan languages, the second most widely spoken, after the Sinitic languages. Burmese was the fourth of the Sino-Tibetan languages to develop a...
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  • Chinese pronouns (category CS1 Chinese-language sources (zh))
    simplified system, 妳 is rare. There are many other pronouns in modern Sinitic languages, such as Taiwanese Hokkien 恁 (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lín) "you" and Written Cantonese...
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    The following is a list of Sinitic languages and their dialects. For a traditional dialectological overview, see also varieties of Chinese. "Chinese"...
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  • Syria, southeastern Turkey and northwestern Iran. The several hundred Sinitic languages are nearly always replaced by Standard Chinese (based on the Beijing...
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  • Present tense (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    (сака/saka) and open (отвaра/otvara). In Wu Chinese, unlike other Sinitic languages (Varieties of Chinese), some tenses can be marked, including the present...
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    Yeniseian languages (/ˌjɛnɪˈseɪən/ YEN-ih-SAY-ən; sometimes known as Yeniseic or Yenisei-Ostyak; occasionally spelled with -ss-) are a family of languages that...
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    variety of Chinese as their first language. Chinese languages form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The spoken varieties of Chinese...
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    official language Number of languages by country Languages used on the Internet List of ISO 639-3 codes Lists of languages List of languages by number...
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    Xu (surname 許) (category CS1 Chinese-language sources (zh))
    (Hokkien) Heoi2 (Cantonese) Kóu (Teochew) Hứa (Vietnamese) Language(s) Chinese Origin Language(s) Chinese Meaning to allow Other names Variant form(s) Xu...
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    texts refer to non-Sinitic languages spoken across this substantial region and their speakers as "Yue". Although those languages are extinct, traces...
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    Gan Chinese (redirect from Gan languages)
    Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, and Fujian. Gan is a member of the Sinitic languages of the Sino-Tibetan language family, and Hakka is the closest Chinese variety to...
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  • Culture of Hong Kong (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
    and three languages") policy. Under this principle, "Chinese" (somewhat ambiguously) and English must both be acknowledged as official languages, with Cantonese...
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    Yue Chinese (redirect from Yue languages)
    Yue (Cantonese pronunciation: [jyːt̚˨]) is a branch of the Sinitic languages primarily spoken in Southern China, particularly in the provinces of Guangdong...
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    Min Chinese (redirect from Min languages)
    Mân-ú; BUC: Mìng-ngṳ̄) is a broad group of Sinitic languages with about 70 million native speakers. These languages are spoken in Fujian province as well as...
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  • This is a list of official languages by country and territory. It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part...
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  • Chinese (category Language and nationality disambiguation pages)
    Macau, and Taiwan Sinitic languages, the major branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family Chinese language, a group of related languages spoken predominantly...
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  • are related to the Sinitic languages phonologically, lexically and morphologically. Sagart later accepted the Sino-Tibetan languages as a valid group and...
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    Sinophone (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    individual who speaks at least one variety of Chinese (that is, one of the Sinitic languages). Academic writers often use the term Sinophone in two definitions:...
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