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  2. Chinese Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Sign Language (abbreviated CSL or ZGS; simplified Chinese: 中国手语; traditional Chinese: 中國手語; pinyin: Zhōngguó Shǒuyǔ) is the official sign language of China. It is different from the Taiwanese Sign Language and is known in Taiwan as Wénfǎ Shǒuyǔ ( simplified Chinese : 文法手语 ; traditional Chinese ...

  3. Pre-nominal letters - Wikipedia

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    Pre-nominal letters are a title which is placed before the name of a person as distinct from a post-nominal title which is placed after the name. Examples of pre-nominal titles, for instance professional titles include: Doctor, Captain, EUR ING (European Engineer), Ir ( Ingenieur ), Mons. ( monsignore) CA (Indian Chartered Accountant) [1] and ...

  4. History of the Chinese language - Wikipedia

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    The earliest historical linguistic evidence of the spoken Chinese language dates back approximately 4,500 years, [1] while examples of the writing system that would become written Chinese are attested in a body of inscriptions made on bronze vessels and oracle bones during the Late Shang period ( c. 1250 – 1050 BCE), [2] [3] with the very ...

  5. Languages of China - Wikipedia

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    There are several hundred languages in China. The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages, collectively known as Hanyu ( simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ, 'Han language'), that are spoken by 92% of the population.

  6. Chinese language law - Wikipedia

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    The law stipulates the scope, norms and standards for the use of the country's common spoken and written language. According to this law, the national standard spoken and written language is Mandarin Putonghua and standardized Chinese characters.

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  7. Microsoft asks some China staff to relocate amid Sino ... - AOL

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    The employees, mostly engineers of Chinese nationality, were earlier in the week offered an option to transfer to the U.S., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, WSJ reported, citing people ...

  8. Chinese language - Wikipedia

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    Standard Chinese is the standard language of China (where it is called 普通话; pǔtōnghuà) and Taiwan, and one of the four official languages of Singapore (where it is called either 华语; 華語; Huáyǔ or 汉语; 漢語; Hànyǔ ). Standard Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin.

  9. Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II - Wikipedia

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    Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II (Chinese: 國語注音符號第二式), abbreviated MPS II, is a romanization system formerly used in the Republic of China . It was created to replace the complex tonal-spelling Gwoyeu Romatzyh , and to co-exist with the popular Wade–Giles ( romanization ) and Zhuyin (non-romanization).

  10. Bachelor of Science - Wikipedia

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    A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B. sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin scientiae baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. [2] The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of London in 1860. [3]

  11. Written Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages. Chinese characters do not directly represent pronunciation, unlike letters in an alphabet or syllabograms in a syllabary .