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Michael Campbell, “10-Language Dictionary of Chinese Characters”, Glossika Publishing, 2018.

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 “Japanese Kanji in Stroke Order” was the topic of an earlier blog post.

“Kanji Stroke Order with English and Japanese”; also, was the topic of an earlier blog post.

Here I present: Michael Campbell, “10-Language Dictionary of Chinese Characters”, Glossika Publishing, 2018 was a Chinese character (“kanji”) dictionary.

你好 is the Chinese characters meaning “Hello” in English; and, below is pronunciation in: 1. Mandarin, 2. Cantonese, 3. Shanghainese (Wu), 4. Xiang, 5. Hakka & 6. Sichuan.

Chinese-speech is referred to as  ‘Putonghua’(普通話) in the Mandarin (官話) language of the  “Sinosphere” “Sinosphere” is geographic region shown on the globe below; and, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Vietnam cultures are based on written “kanji” (Chinese characters).

Chinese-speech referred to as  ‘Putonghua’(普通話) in the Mandarin (官話) language is an attempt at standardization of the Chinese-speech.   Michael Campbell, “10-Language Dictionary of Chinese Characters”, Glossika Publishing, 2018 has the following languages:

0. Middle Chinese.

1. Japanese.

2. Korean.

3. Vietnamese.

4. Mandarin.

5. Taiwanese.

6. Southern Min (Hokkien).

7. Cantonese (Yue).

8. Wu (Shangahai/Wenzhou).

9. Fuzhou Eastern Min.

10. Hakka.

Middle Chinese (#0 above) is the original speech from which the Chinese Varieties above evolved.

Languages in the “Sinosphere” (East Asia and Vietnam) tend to be analytic, with little morphology, monosyllabic or sesquisyllabic lexical structures, extensive compounding, complex tonal systems, and serial verb constructions.

The ABOVE “map” & the BELOW “pie-chart” is a presentation of the “first language” speakers in CHINA.

 

Mandarin 65.7%

Min 6.2%

Wu 6.1%

Yue 5.6%

Jin 5.2%

Gan 3.9%

Hakka 3.5%

Xiang 3.0%

Huizhou 0.3%

Pinghua (Other) 0.6%

Here I presented: Michael Campbell, “10-Language Dictionary of Chinese Characters”, Glossika Publishing, 2018 which was a Chinese character (“kanji”) dictionary.

“Japanese Kanji in Stroke Order” was the topic of an earlier blog post.

“Kanji Stroke Order with English and Japanese” also was the topic of an earlier blog post.

The ABOVE diagram shows how Michael Campbell lists the “kanji” items.  My blog post listed above were in English & Japanese.  “10-Language Dictionary of Chinese Characters”, 2018 by Michael Campbell allows one to extend one’s knowledge of “kanji” to Chinese, Korean & Vietnamese as well.

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