LANGUAGE

The Chinese Language by Wesley Cheng Learn about the Mandarin Language! A type of Chinese! **  What questions will you be able to answer after you read this page? ** = = = = = = 2. What is the history of this language? ** = = 
 * 1. Who speaks this language? ** **
 * 3. What is the writing system of this language? **

The Mandarin Language = = Have you ever met someone who has spoken Chinese in you school? It may be no surprise because over 6 **BILLION** people speak it. That is 6,000,000,000. It is spoken in many different places like China and the United States! It is very well  known, with a cool writing system and a very long history that dates back many years.  Mandarin is very well known around the world. There are over 870 million Mandarin speakers alone. Many countries other than China speak it such as Thailand, Indonesia, Russia, and many others! The Mandarin language is a good way of talking and communicating to other people around the world. <span style="font-size: 80%; color: rgb(0, 255, 23);">You can trace back the Mandarin Language many many years. "Written Chinese emerged in its embryonic form of carved symbols approximately 6,000 years ago." (echineselearning) These very early forms soon began to change into little pictures and it helped people memorize them like kids in the US use pictures that look like the letter to learn the alphabet. The actual use of Chinese can be dated back 700 years ago!! Mandarin is a widely used form of Chinese. It is just one type of it. <span style="font-size: 80%; color: rgb(44, 115, 226);">The Chinese language is said to have one of the most beautiful forms of writing. They began as graphs which eventually changed into letters that represented a picture or object. There is no alphabet like the one we have in the English language. Instead there are over 50,000 unique or different characters. Each of these characters all make specific sounds that you can combine to make words. Just the ability to read 3000 - 4000 words allows you to read things like newspapers and books. Mandarin makes up what China is. It is a good language to learn because it is used all over the world, it has a cool history and writing system that was used many years ago. Now that you have learned so much, can you answer the questions from the top?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(44, 115, 226); font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Works Cited **<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(44, 115, 226); font-size: 120%;"> <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(44, 115, 226); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Images** <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Beijing. [Online image] Available http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/2004/07/05/beijing-mil.view-south.jpg, March 23, 2009. <span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 255, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chinese Character. [Online image] Available http://www.soas.ac.uk/languagecentre/learners/projects/japanese/eternity/25854.gif, March 23, 2009. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">More Chinese Characters. [Online image] Available http://www.chinesenames.org/chinese-symbols/images/love.gif, March 23, 2009. The Sinitic Languages. [Online image] Available http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Map_of_sinitic_languages-en.svg, March 23, 2009.
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