1. Language of Investigation: Mandarin Chinese. Although she speaks Yue (Cantonese) at home with her family.
2. What places of origin (countries, regions, cities) is this language primarily spoken? 70% of Mandarin language is found in China.
3. This closest/most similar language to this language is: Mandarin belongs to an independent branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. This includes several major subfamilies: Tibetan, spoken in Tibet; Lolo-Burmese, in Burma, and in discontinuous parts of southern China, etc.; and Karen, in lower Burma. Tibetan, Lolo-Burmese, and Karen are more closely related than the Chinese languages/dialects are to any of the other subfamily members.
4. How many speakers are there globally of this language? 720 million people in China, or 70 percent of the population of China; substantial numbers of speakers are in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Russia, the USA, Mongolia, Vietnam, Brunei, South Africa, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Hong Kong. The total number of speakers in approximately 885 million
Alphabet
5. This language has which type of alphabet?
Latin (every sign has a single sound)
Syllabic (every sign represents a whole syllable)
Logographic (each sign represents and entire word)
6. This language reads in which directions:
LEFT to RIGHT, UP to DOWN
RIGHT to LEFT, DOWN to UP
RIGHT to LEFT, UP to DOWN
LEFT to RIGHT, DOWN to UP
7. The letters/ characters of this alphabet are of which language family?
Indo-European
Sino-Tibetan
Semitic
Bantu
Uralic
Dravidian
Austonesian
Altic
8. Does this language depend primarily on tone or pitch?
Yes. Mandarin is a tone language in which each stressed syllable has a significant contrastive pitch which is an integral part of the syllable. All Chinese languages/dialects have tone, but Mandarin has one of the simplest systems, consisting of four basic tones (high level, high rising, dipping/falling, high falling) in contrast to Cantonese, for example, with nine contrastive tones.
b. No
9. Is this language syllable or stress timed?
Syllable timed
Stress timed
10. Does this language have strong sound/symbol correspondence? (English does not)
Yes
No. There is little connection between the written and spoken language: the Chinese system of writing, for the most part, does not symbolize the spoken language.
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