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Chinese and languages
In addition to Eastern Armenian, many languages, such as Korean, Thai, Indo-Aryan languages, Dravidian languages, Icelandic, Ancient Greek, and the dialects of Chinese etc.
It is mainly an oriental art form, and most 3D beading resources are written in oriental languages, such as Japanese and Chinese, further impeding wide access to English-speaking countries.
However, breathy-voiced and aspirated stops are acoustically similar in that in both cases there is an audible period of breathiness following the stop, and in the history of various languages ( e. g. Ancient Greek, Mandarin Chinese ), breathy-voiced stops have subsequently developed into voiceless aspirated stops.
** Chinese character, a written language symbol ( sinogram ) used in Chinese, Japanese, and other languages
* Chinese language, a language or family of languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China
Other languages use fricative and often trilled segments as syllabic nuclei, as in Czech and several languages in Democratic Republic of the Congo, and China, including Mandarin Chinese.
For instance, nearly all Australian languages lack fricatives ; a large percentage of the world's languages, for example Mandarin Chinese, lack voiced stops as phonemes such as,, and.
As a result of this loaning, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese share a corpus of linguistic terms describing modern terminology, paralleling the similar corpus of terms built from Greco-Latin and shared among European languages.
Southeast Asian English comprises Singapore English and Malaysian English ; it features some influence from Malay, Chinese languages and dialects, and Indian English.
Seeking to promote Chinese nationalism, Chiang's government actively ignored and suppressed local cultural expression, even forbidding the use of local languages in mass media broadcasts or during class sessions.
* Chinese Literature Classics ( listed in English, with links to Chinese texts and translations in several languages )
An opposite example is the case of Chinese, whose variations such as Mandarin and Cantonese are often called dialects and not languages, despite their mutual unintelligibility, because the word for them in Mandarin, 方言 fāngyán, was mistranslated as " dialect " because it meant " regional speech ".
In contrast, the spoken languages of the Han Chinese are usually referred to as dialects of one Chinese language despite their vast differences.
Examples are Roman numerals, Brahmi numerals, and Chinese numerals, as well as the Hindu-Arabic numerals used by speakers of many European languages.
In English and other languages, " d " and " t " indicate a voiced and unvoiced distinction, which is not phonemic in Chinese.
Later in his career he also worked with Yiddish, Hebrew and Chinese, as well as Germanic languages, and he was also invested in the development of an International Auxiliary Language.

Chinese and treat
However, Jacques ( 2006 ) notes, " comparative work has never been able to put forth evidence for common innovations to all the Tibeto-Burman languages ( the Sino-Tibetan languages to the exclusion of Chinese )," and that " it no longer seems justified to treat Chinese as the first branching of the Sino-Tibetan family ," as the morphological divide between Chinese and Tibeto-Burman has been bridged by recent reconstructions of Old Chinese.
The more common theory is that the name originated in the Western regions of the United States, and is derived from a topical preparation made from the Chinese Water Snake ( Enhydris chinensis ) used by Chinese laborers to treat joint pain.
Some languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, treat all nouns as mass nouns, and need to make use of a noun classifier to add numerals and other quantifiers.
Activated Aconite is used as an herb in Chinese traditional medicine, including in a formula to treat Arthritis.
Among other species, varieties and cultivars, Amomum villosum cultivated in China, Laos and Vietnam is used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat stomach issues, constipation, dysentery, and other digestion problems.
In Chinese medicine, tsao-ko is used to treat stomach disorders and malaria.
In Chinese medicine cloves or ding xiang are considered acrid, warm and aromatic, entering the kidney, spleen and stomach meridians, and are notable in their ability to warm the middle, direct stomach qi downward, to treat hiccough and to fortify the kidney yang.
Every two weeks, the prisoners receive “ a special meal of pork broth soup and white-flour steamed buns .” Important Chinese holidays such as New Year ’ s, National Day, and the Spring Festival are celebrated with meat dumplings, a special treat in an otherwise meatless diet.
One has been to treat it as simply a font issue so that different fonts might be used to render Chinese, Japanese or Korean.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the dried peel of the fruit is used in the regulation of ch ' i, and also used to treat abdominal distension, to enhance digestion, and to reduce phlegm.
Nature has made a race of workers, the Chinese race, who have wonderful manual dexterity and almost no sense of honor ... A race of tillers of the soil, the Negro ; treat him with kindness and humanity, and all will be as it should ; a race of masters and soldiers, the European race.
The Joseon and Chinese leaders saw no reason to concede to such demands, nor to treat the invaders as equals within the Ming trading system.
While Chinese scholarship continues to place the " Zhuang – Dong languages " among the Sino-Tibetan family, other linguists treat the Tai languages as a separate family.
In traditional Chinese herbology, E. sinica is included in many herbal formulas used to treat cold and flu such as 麻黃湯 ma huang tang ( ephedra decoction ) or 麻杏石甘湯 ma xing shi gan tang ( ephedra, apricot kernel, gypsum, and licorice decoction ).
The Chinese use liquorice to treat Tuberculosis
The main lesson is twofold: ( 1 ) Internally, arouse the masses of the people ; ( 2 ) Externally, unite in a common struggle with those nations of the world which treat Chinese as equals.
) Traditional Chinese gardens are also more likely to treat the plants in a naturalistic way, while traditional Japanese gardens might feature plants sheared into mountain shapes.
Although the Chinese government has been making great efforts to popularize Mandarin by administrative means, most Taishan residents do not speak Mandarin in their daily lives, but treat it as a foreign language, with Cantonese being the lingua franca of their region.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the fruit is used to treat prematurely grey hair, to " tonify " the blood, and treat constipation and diabetes.

Chinese and these
But, up to now, no one has attempted to analyze its inherent mathematical properties, or the numerical significance of its numbers -- singly or in combination -- and then tried to consider these in the light of Old Chinese cosmological concepts.
In fact, the neat balance of these pairs, and their subtle equilibrium, would have had special meaning in the minds of the Old Chinese.
My father went as a missionary to China in a generation that responded to Student Volunteer Movement speakers who held watches in their hands and announced to the students in their audiences how many Chinese souls were going to hell each second because these students were not over there saving them.
Tibetan astrology also shares many of these components but has also been strongly influenced by Chinese culture and acknowledges a circle of animal signs similar to that of the Chinese zodiac ( see below ).
Including these failed drug tests, 27 Chinese swimmers were caught using performance enhancing drugs from 1990 through 1997 ; more than the rest of the world combined.
" Japanese-made Chinese "), and many of these words have been re-loaned into modern Chinese.
As a result, these terms are virtually indistinguishable from native Chinese words: indeed, there is some dispute over some of these terms as to whether the Japanese or Chinese coined them first.
Eleven of these 21 unique patterns are repeated to make a total of 32 tiles in a Chinese dominoes set.
Three of these use the Chinese character 儒 rú, meaning " scholar ".
" Attributes that are seen as religious — such as ancestor worship, ritual, and sacrifice — were advocated by Confucius as necessary for social harmony ; however, these attributes can be traced to the traditional non-Confucian Chinese beliefs of Chinese folk religion, and are also practiced by Daoists and Chinese Buddhists.
For these reasons, according to many commentators, Confucius's teachings may be considered a Chinese example of humanism.
Another difference is that lamb and mutton dishes are more commonly available than in other Chinese restaurants, due to the greater prevalence of these meats in the cuisine of western Chinese regions.
However, these causal properties can't be detected by anyone outside the mind, otherwise the Chinese Room couldn't pass the Turing test — the people outside would be able to tell there wasn't a Chinese speaker in the room by detecting their causal properties.
Within Chinese medicine texts the Wu Xing are also referred to as Wu Yun ( 五運 wŭ yùn ) or a combination of the two characters ( Wu Xing-Yun ) these emphasise the correspondence of five elements to five ' seasons ' ( four seasons plus one ).
This has resulted in a number of forms of fusion cuisine, often very popular in the country in question, and some of these, such as ramen ( Japanese Chinese ) have become popular internationally.

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