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Exploring the Chinese Language

This quiz tests your knowledge about the Chinese language, including its titles, speakers, regional affiliations, and language family.

#Chinese language #language family #linguistics #language speakers #cultural studies

1 Which of the following titles did the Chinese language have?

2 Who of the following spoke the Chinese language?

3 What region does the Chinese language belong to?

4 What family does the Chinese language belong to?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Amoy dialect of Chinese formed the basis of Taiwanese.
  • the Chinese character referring to the mythological sea monster Shen (pictured) is used in Chinese, Korean and Japanese terms for "mirage".
  • the Sutra of Forty-two Chapters, the earliest extant Chinese Buddhist sutra, is similar in form to the Analects of Confucius.
  • the ancient Chinese text Huangdi Yinfujing, attributed to the mythical emperor Huangdi in the 3rd century BCE, may have been a forgery from the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE).
  • the surrender of Japanese troops in China was first announced in a Chinese language by Dr. Ernest B. Price (pictured) in October 1945.
  • near the exit from the Chee Kung Tong Society Building, a lintel once proclaimed, in Chinese, Everyone is Equal.
  • in 1687 Philippe Couplet published Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (pictured), the first known Western translation of a Chinese literary work.
  • Louis XIV of France employed a native Chinese librarian, Arcadio Huang, to organize the royal library's collection of Chinese books.
  • Chinese BASIC is the name given to several Chinese versions of the BASIC programming language.
  • despite plagiarizing a Chinese-French-Latin dictionary ordered by Napoleon, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes went on to become a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
  • director Fei Mu's 1948 film Spring in a Small Town was named the best Chinese-language film ever made, by the Hong Kong Film Association awards in 2005.
  • "Kashi", the name of an all natural, seven whole grain food company based in La Jolla, California, means "happy" in Chinese and "energy" in Japanese.
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