The Languages of China

affricate alphabet Altaic appear Asia Aspirated become beginning called Cantonese century characters China Chinese close common completely consonants culture described developed dialects dictionary distinctions early East elements English example fact final given groups guage important initial Jingpo kind known language later letters linguistic living Manchu Mandarin means Miao Middle Chinese minority Mongolian Mongols mountain nasal native Naxi never North Northern noun object official original Oroqen Peking person Press pronounced pronunciation Qinghai question region relatively represent result River script sentence separate Shanghai sounds South South China Southern speak speakers speech spoken standard stop structure suffix syllable symbols term things tion tone traditional Turkic Uighur University usually variety verb Voiced Voiceless vowel Western words writing written Yellow Yunnan Zhuang