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| About one-fifth of the world's population,
or over 1.4 billion people, speak Chinese as their native language.
Chinese language owns the largest native speaking population in the
world. |
| Creation, characters, expression and
grammar of Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and the other east Asian languages
all are affected by Chinese language. |
| Chinese character is a kind of hieroglyphic
language. To learn Chinese is different from to learn English, French and Latin. |
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| The earliest Chinese characters were
found about 6,000 years ago. |
| Evolution method 1:
Totally 7 periods |
| 1, Oracle Bone Script; 2, Inscriptions
on bronze; 3, Seal Script; 4, Clerical Script; 5, Regular Script;
6, Cursive Script; 7, Semi-Cursive Script |
| Evolution method 2:
Totally 5 periods |
| 声 Sound (from nature) |
| 形 shape (such as some marks when people
go out for hunting, some animal claw print ...) |
| 象 Components (To create language) |
| 数 Numbers (counting) |
| 理 Extending |
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