General language

General language

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General language

Min Dong, or the Eastern Min language, is the language mostly spoken in the eastern part of Fujian province in China. The capital of Fujian province is Fuzhou and the Fuzhou dialect of Min Dong is ...

Min Nan

Language; General language

Min Nan, or the Southern Min languages, are a family of Chinese languages spoken in southern Fujian, eastern Guangdong, Hainan, southern Zhejiang provinces of China and in Taiwan. Min Nan usually ...

Wu

Language; General language

Wu is a grouping of linguisitcally similar and related varieties of spoken Chinese primarily spoken in Zhejiang province, Shanghai and southern Jiangsu province.

Cantonese

Language; General language

Cantonese is a language that originated in the Canton area of Southern China (now known as Guangzhou). In Mainland China it is mostly spoken in Guangdong province. Cantonese is also spoken in Hong ...

Wade-Giles

Language; General language

Wade-Giles is a romanization system for the Mandarin Chinese language. It was the most widely-used form of transcibing the Chinese language for most of the 20th century up until 1979. It has been ...

Pinyin

Language; General language

Pinyin is the official system used to transcribe Chinese characters into Latin script and is used in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. The system was developed in the 1950s by Zhou Youguang. ...

juggernaut

Language; General language

A word of Indian origin that is commonly used to describe either a large and overpowing destructive force, or anything requiring blind devotion. It comes from the word Jagganath, the Hindu god Vishnu ...