Respond to: jhungary
Could you be more ignorant and ridiculous? Chinese language is not Chinese' creation? Who else could you
indicate helped Chinese invent Hanzi while themselves not speaking Chinese and of course having no idea of Chinese?
Chinese actually should be called "Hannese", because it's Han Chinese' language, Hanzi was created by Han Chinese' ancestry Hua-Xia ethinicity（华夏族）that had never ever been indo- or mongo- or any other ethinicity related.
The earliest discovered to date and highly mature written Chinese language oracle bone inscriptions emerged over 3000 years ago, not mentioning the much much earlier burgeoning stage (believed to date back 6000 years ago, ever found character-like engravings such as: “火”、“⊙”、“井”、“圭”、“▽” among which “⊙” was identical to “日” in oracle bone inscriptions on fragments of pottery dated 7000—7500 ago unearthed in southern China).
So, during those Chinese cultural and historical development process, where were your claimed indo- mongo- involvements? When and how did those elements contribute to the birth of Hanzi? You invented history by yourself, right?
Chinese is Chinese, we've never had any East Han Language 東漢語 or South Han Language, ancient Chinese passed on from generation to generation uninterruptedly and gradually evolved into Modern Chinese.
普通话(Mandarin) is of course Chinese 漢語, it's just a standard modern Chinese with standard accent based on northern Chinese dialects. See, you have such a shoddy knowledge of Chinese language and Chinese history, you think your points any bit of worth?
Han Chinese undoubtedly and absolutely own the patent for creation of Hanzi.
just saw so much envy and jealousy out there!
As for use of Kanji by Japanese, again, it's not the problem of permitting or forbidding, it's just so funny and absurd.
Will your government adopt such a mixed language as "I like 功夫(kungfu), I've been 练xercising 武术(martial arts) for years. ", given that you can just simply express "练xercise" in your own word as "exercise".
I guess almost every nation in the world except Japan won't do it.
Dude, if you simply say because the word Chinese (the language) is the word Chinese (the people), then Chinese language must be of decentant of Chinese, well, i can't help but laugh at your ignorant
The History of Chinese (the language) is based on a script of Indo-Sino-Tibetan (I was wrong before not Mongol, as i was just remembering stuff.)
Sino-Tibetan languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The prospect of Chinese is a direct descentant of such language.
The Term East Han Language is a Anglo-Chinese Term referring to Language of China, South Asia, and South East Asia. Which is what considered as the origin of the modern Chinese.
Do bear in mine, there are different between the origin of the language (
中國) and the country the OP was talking about (
中國)
While the
中國 create the language of modern Chinese that
中國 is not the modern China
中國, that was an ancient China which does not exist anymore (Broken up into different country). While the OP was calling the modern China to act on it, if you fail to see how pathetic it was, then i can't help you.
I did not make up history, but seems to me, you know nothing about it
Will your government adopt such a mixed language as "I like 功夫(kungfu), I've been 练xercising 武术(martial arts) for years. ", given that you can just simply express "练xercise" in your own word as "exercise".
I guess almost every nation in the world except Japan won't do it
as i said before, language change and evolve due to time, cultural and residenial inference.
In English there are no word for the example you mention above as they cannot be more cultural influenced. For example, we say We can go yum cha (飲荼
today. That is we do not have a specific term for "Going to a Chinese Restaurant" in English. We adopted the term Yum Cha as this is the new word we use, about 40 years ago, no one(or not many) in the USA would know what does it mean by Yum Cha, but now, almost everyone know.
We don't just change our language because of a country's influence. More prominant example are D'Oh (From Homer Simpson), Commando ( from Popular TV Series FRIENDS) and rickroll (From modern youtube usage). Those English word are newly inducted because of cultural reference.
But not just English do it, almost all language did the same too. In Spanish, we never have the word Hollywood (We do but different pronouniciation) in Spanish, if we want to speak the word "Hollywood" it will not be Hol-Li-Wood, but rather Ho-Gee-Wo-Odd. But most spaniard use the word Hollywood (English) instead of Hollywood (Spanish) now a days.
