If Classical Chinese Was Used as a Lingua Franca Again

Abstract

This discussion provides current perspectives on the use of Chinese as a lingua franca amongst the Han peoples of greater Prc. As a national lingua franca, Mandarin Chinese or pŭtōnghuą Chinese morpho-syllables intended to exist read in pŭtōnghuą or Standard mandarin are represented in pìnyīn; those which are meant to be read in Cantonese are represented in Jyutping ( ) with two numbers in superscript indicating the tone contour (Fan et al., 1997). is unsurpassed in terms of the number of speakers. It is notwithstanding not however widely spoken in many dialect areas of China. This is why the promotion of pŭtōnghuą among dialect speakers continues to exist an important role of the language policy and planning of the People'due south Republic. In Taiwan, equally a issue of some four decades of hegemonic enforcement of the National Language Motility until 1987, an accented majority of the Taiwanese can understand and speak Mandarin, just Southern Min continues to be commonly used in the southern parts of the island, partly considering for many Taiwanese, language choice is closely leap up with national and ethnolinguistic identity. In the two special administrative regions of Red china, Hong Kong, and Macao, Cantonese continues to serve as a lingua franca amidst the Chinese there. It is the simply dialect which has attained a level of prestige that rivals that of the standard national language, and which has evolved written forms of its ain that are usually used in breezy genres of media discourses.

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