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    Chinese is a tonal language, where the tone of a syllable can change the meaning of a word. It is also an isolating language where each syllable generally corresponds to a single meaning. Written Chinese uses characters where each character represents a syllable and meaning, rather than an alphabetic writing system like English.

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    Chinese is a tonal language, where the tone of a syllable can change the meaning of a word. It is also an isolating language where each syllable generally corresponds to a single meaning. Written Chinese uses characters where each character represents a syllable and meaning, rather than an alphabetic writing system like English.

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    Characteristics of the Chinese Language

    2. It is a tone language Mandarin m m m m Cantonese si55 si35 si33 si21 si13 si22
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    Characteristics of the Chinese Language


    3. It is an isolating language: (a) one word/syllable in general expresses one meaning E.g. /fa55/ /si55/ E.g. fee /fi/relief /rI'lif/bikini /bI'kinI/

    Written representation
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    E.g. E.g. (Lesson XIII) (Lesson XV)

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    (Lesson V)

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