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Chinese Language - The Most Written, Not Most Spoken Language |
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Submitted by Teo Graca
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I studied a little Chinese and the things that stuck with me were that the language is not sexed, like English is not sexed, ...and that although it may be the most written language in the world, there are so many dialects, it may never be the most spoken language in the world.
re: sexed - it doesn't (as I understand it) have female and male versions of words. This is relatively rare in languages. French has significant object and verb differences based on sex. Arabic actually changes based on what sex the speaker is. If you say something one way, you are a woman, and another way, you are a man. Chinese and English don't allow for these sexed language issues. Is this a sexy subject or what? ;)
re: dialects - I am not sure how many Chinese dialects there are, but I understand that two people that speak and understand different dialects and just one dialect each, can't really understand each other. They are like separate languages. Although I like to follow which language is the most spoken in the world, I haven't seen much buzz on what is the most written language in the world, and I would guess that it is Chinese, since although they speak different versions of the language, they all use the same writing system. Interesting stuff, eh!
re: "eh!" - that's me speaking Canadian! :)
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