How did the Chinese language and script evolve?
Hi, actually I am writing a term paper on this topic. I have gone through some books too. Kindly help me by providing some information or some sources/links.
Thanks a lot.
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Hi, actually I am writing a term paper on this topic. I have gone through some books too. Kindly help me by providing some information or some sources/links.
Thanks a lot.
Tags: writing a term paper
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November 21st, 2009 at 11:53 am
Well, I’m not going to write your paper for you, but here are some excellent resources:
Jerry Norman. 1988. Chinese. Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Henry Rogers. 2005. Writing Systems: A Linguistic Approach. Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics 18. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Peter T. Daniels & William Bright, ed. 1996. The World’s Writing Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The chapter on Chinese in the Rogers book is especially good. Most of the stuff on the Internet or in popular works on the history of writing or the Chinese languages is garbage, but these three sources are very good and I use them when preparing my lectures on East Asian languages and Chinese writing.
The following is the ONLY internet source that I would recommend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_writing
November 21st, 2009 at 11:53 am
you could use
http://www.zhongwen.com, http://www.ancientscripts.com/chinese.html, http://www.logoi.com/notes/chinese_origins.html
or
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese.htm
Below is a translated page from Spanish to English, but some terms are still in Spanish, so get a Spanish to English dictionary.
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?tt=url&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.proel.org%2Fmundo.html&lp=es_en&.intl=us&fr=moz2
November 21st, 2009 at 11:53 am
It started out as pictures (pictograms), as did most writing. Ancient Chinese writing is much simpler than the modern, and you can almost figure it out just by looking at it. As time went by it added "ideograms" to its symbol vocabulary, which are more complex and arbitrary since ideas don’t have obvious pictures associated with them.
Turn the first letter of out Latin alphabet upside down and you will notice it looks like the head of an ox, which was its original meaning way back when.
November 21st, 2009 at 2:44 pm
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