Китайский язык

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Кита́йский язы́к (китайские, синитические языки^[1]; самоназвания кит. трад. 中文, упр. 中文, кит. трад. 漢語, упр. 汉语 и другие) — язык или языковая ветвь сино-тибетской языковой семьи, состоящая из множества идиомов, в том числе полностью взаимонепонятных^[2]^[3]. Является наиболее распространённым родным языком, с общим числом говорящих более 1,3 млрд человек^[4].

Цитаты

	Чем дольше живёт язык, тем богаче, разнообразнее и утончённее он становится. То, что произошло с китайским языком, будет происходить с более молодыми языками по ходу их истории в их собственной уникальной и присущей им самим форме. Понимание истории китайского языка и его влияния на китайское мышление может быть полезным изучающим западную культуру, потому что это — иллюстрация того, что происходит за горизонтом [познания] современных носителей западных языков, литературы на которых развивались всего несколько столетий. — Культурная история китайского языка (A Cultural History of the Chinese Language)
	The longer a language lives, the richer, more diverse and refined it becomes. What happened to Chinese will take place in younger languages in their own time and in their unique and native forms. An understanding of the history of Chinese language and its impact upon the Chinese mind can be helpful for the students of Western culture because it illustrates an experience beyond the horizon of contemporary speakers of Western languages whose literatures have evolved for only a few hundred years. (Sharron Gu. A Cultural History of the Chinese Language, 2011, page 1)
	— Шеррон Гу (Sharron Gu)

Примечания

↑ Ю. Б. Коряков. КИТА́ЙСКИЕ ЯЗЫКИ́ в БРЭ
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*David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), p. 312. «The mutual unintelligibility of the varieties is the main ground for referring to them as separate languages.»
- Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar (1989), p 2. «The Chinese language family is genetically classified as an independent branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.»
- Jerry Norman. Chinese (1988), p.1. «The modern Chinese dialects are really more like a family of languages».
- John DeFrancis. The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy (1984), p.56. «To call Chinese a single language composed of dialects with varying degrees of difference is to mislead by minimizing disparities that according to Chao are as great as those between English and Dutch. To call Chinese a family of languages is to suggest extralinguistic differences that in fact do not exist and to overlook the unique linguistic situation that exists in China.»
↑ Китайский язык // БРЭ. Т.14. М.,2009.
↑ Summary by language size (англ.). // Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.

[1] Ю. Б. Коряков. КИТА́ЙСКИЕ ЯЗЫКИ́ в БРЭ

[david_crystal-2] *David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), p. 312. «The mutual unintelligibility of the varieties is the main ground for referring to them as separate languages.»
Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar (1989), p 2. «The Chinese language family is genetically classified as an independent branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.»

Jerry Norman. Chinese (1988), p.1. «The modern Chinese dialects are really more like a family of languages».

John DeFrancis. The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy (1984), p.56. «To call Chinese a single language composed of dialects with varying degrees of difference is to mislead by minimizing disparities that according to Chao are as great as those between English and Dutch. To call Chinese a family of languages is to suggest extralinguistic differences that in fact do not exist and to overlook the unique linguistic situation that exists in China.»

[3] Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar (1989), p 2. «The Chinese language family is genetically classified as an independent branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.»

[4] Jerry Norman. Chinese (1988), p.1. «The modern Chinese dialects are really more like a family of languages».

[5] John DeFrancis. The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy (1984), p.56. «To call Chinese a single language composed of dialects with varying degrees of difference is to mislead by minimizing disparities that according to Chao are as great as those between English and Dutch. To call Chinese a family of languages is to suggest extralinguistic differences that in fact do not exist and to overlook the unique linguistic situation that exists in China.»

[3] Китайский язык // БРЭ. Т.14. М.,2009.

[ethnologue-4] Summary by language size (англ.). // Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.

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