If cantonese really did die the cultural impact would be devastating for this ancient language the closest dialect of chinese to that used in poetic classics like dream of the red chamber. This is called language shift. Probably the most common cause of language death is when a community that previously only spoke one language starts to speak another one.
The death of a language can start in the home or it can start in some area as high up as the government or aristocracy. Shouvik datta orpington kent united. With the growth of powerful and widespread world languages such as english chinese and spanish it will be necessary to take steps to protect linguistic diversity in order to ensure the survival of smaller languages.
The death in 2008 of chief marie smith jones signalled her language s death. Chinese languages are spoken by the ethnic han chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in china. Chinese writing is a family of east asian analytic languages that form the sinitic branch of the sino tibetan languages.
Han language or especially though not exclusively for written chinese. Since gaining status as an official language in 1909 mandarin has quickly gained prominence as the lingua franca within china this has greatly improved the ability for people of different regions to communicate with each other in addition to strengthening national unity. In 2017 73 of the chinese population reported speaking mandarin chinese up from 50 in 2000.
Note that a lot of the terms here are very formal archaic or otherwise inappropriate. I found this list of various chinese words for death organised into different categories and i ve roughly translated it here with a few additions. A grim but interesting topic.
Mandarin 60 chinese words for death. Death stranding has japanese and english language options kojima recently shared on twitter that there will indeed be language options for the japanese version of death stranding. Bubonic plague known as the black death in the.
Authorities in the northern chinese region of inner mongolia have issued an early epidemic warning after a resident contracted bubonic plague.
Death in chinese language. The chinese word for four 四 pinyin. Sei 3 sounds quite similar to the word for death 死 pinyin. Sei 2 in many varieties of chinese similarly the sino japanese sino korean and sino vietnamese words for four shi し japanese and sa 사 korean sound similar or identical to death in each language see korean numerals japanese numerals vietnamese. Please find below many ways to say death in different languages.
This is the translation of the word death to over 80 other languages.
This is the translation of the word death to over 80 other languages. Please find below many ways to say death in different languages. Sei 2 in many varieties of chinese similarly the sino japanese sino korean and sino vietnamese words for four shi し japanese and sa 사 korean sound similar or identical to death in each language see korean numerals japanese numerals vietnamese.
Sei 3 sounds quite similar to the word for death 死 pinyin. The chinese word for four 四 pinyin.
