Sinitic dialects. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The notion of an East Asian or Sinitic sphere began to take shape. From Wordnik.com. [5. China, 221 B.C.E.-589 C.E] Reference
In your example, Sinitic languages have very strict syllabic rules. From Wordnik.com. [Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan] Reference
I think Nom had the potential to become the best Sinitic writing system ever. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: THE DIFFICULTY OF JAPANESE.] Reference
It is often seen as a Chinese dialect within the larger Sinitic language family. From Wordnik.com. [Two by Adams] Reference
However, Pynchon's lengkua resembles a borrowing of the elements liang Ko from a Sinitic language. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: LENGKUA/GALANGAL.] Reference
Sanskrit is one of the most highly inflected Indo-European languages, while Tibetan belongs to the Sinitic family of languages and is far less inflected. From Wordnik.com. [Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior - Shantideva ��� Introductory Note on the Translation] Reference
So I guess we'll have to try this: Vis-à-vis the number of tones, Mandarin was the more economical of the Sinitic languages, settling with four tones. From Wordnik.com. [Fun with Old Chinese rhymes] Reference
Despite conflicts with the rulers of China, Sinitic culture continued to make inroads into Vietnam, just as classical Chinese remained the language of the elite throughout these years. From Wordnik.com. [b. 1009-1527, Independence and Its Defense] Reference
Y.R. Chao was making a point about classical Chinese or "Literary Sinitic", not about any alleged inadequacy of romanization to represent Mandarin or any of the other Chinese languages. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: SHIH SHIH.] Reference
Right after your first comment, I already adapted my text to read: Vis-à-vis the number of tones, Mandarin was the more economical of the Sinitic languages, settling with four tones. From Wordnik.com. [Fun with Old Chinese rhymes] Reference
When I wrote "Mandarin was the more conservative of the Sinitic languages", I failed to specify clearly what sort of "conservatism" I was referring to although I allude to it immediately after this phrase. From Wordnik.com. [Fun with Old Chinese rhymes] Reference
This certainly was the case during the late classical and early medieval periods that followed the era of the First Emperor, for we have abundant information concerning non-Sinitic peoples from abroad living in the EAH during these times. From Wordnik.com. [Worker from the West] Reference
They were brought together over a thousand years ago to render into Sinitic the Buddhist Sanskrit term LOKA-DHAATU, which was also rendered as shìjiàn, composed of graphs that individually mean "generation, era, lifetime" and "space between.". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: OLYMPIC SLOGAN.] Reference
(Mar 25 2008) Based on the input from Movenon, I realize now that my initial statement in the first paragraph of this entry ("Mandarin was the more conservative of the Sinitic languages, settling with four tones,... ") is too vague and may cause confusion. From Wordnik.com. [Fun with Old Chinese rhymes] Reference
Similarly, the movement of Tai peoples, a gradual infiltration along the rivers and streams, culminated by the 11th century in the introduction of an alternative social structure (neither Indic nor Sinitic but similar to that of the Mongols), based on territorial units. From Wordnik.com. [b. Mainland Southeast Asia] Reference
Vis-à-vis the number of tones, Mandarin was the more economical of the Sinitic languages, settling with four tones; the so-called "fifth tone" as in the interrogative particle, 吗 ma being in reality a misnomer for what is the reduced variant of any of these four tones. From Wordnik.com. [Fun with Old Chinese rhymes] Reference
He calls this written form Literary Sinitic (LS) and finds the disparity between it and any form of spoken Chinese, which he refers to under the general heading of Vernacular Sinitic (VS), is of a wholly different nature than the contrast between written Latin and any modern written or spoken Romance language. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: WRITTEN VERNACULARS IN ASIA.] Reference
Fusion is by no means a new phenomenon in Sinitic. From Wordnik.com. [Language Log] Reference
Singapore and Hong Kong having predominantly Sinitic populations, and being financial centres that attract much of the "brightest and best". From Wordnik.com. [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference
So too will the Sinophone world be enriched and enhanced by the growing communities of users of Chinese who learn, employ and creatively engage with living Sinitic legacies. From Wordnik.com. [Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China] Reference
For instance, Chinese characters have been used to write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, but that certainly does not make Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese Sinitic languages. From Wordnik.com. [Language Log] Reference
All the usual arguments in favor of Sinitic or "Chinese" being a single language (common culture, common script, common history, common ethnicity, common polity, and so forth) do not hold water. From Wordnik.com. [Language Log] Reference
In any event, when making a case against the indivisibility of Sinitic, it is not necessary to rebut each of these "common" features individually, since they are largely or wholly extralinguistic. From Wordnik.com. [Language Log] Reference
The heyday of the Silk Road corresponds, on its west end, to the Byzantine Empire, Sassanid Empire Period to Il Khanate Period in the Nile-Oxus section and Three Kingdoms to Yuan Dynasty in the Sinitic zone in its east end. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
Whether or not Sinitic and Tibetic are genetically related, how can it be that there is only a single Sinitic "language" with 1.2 billion speakers of innumerable "dialects," while Tibetic - with somewhere around two million speakers worldwide - is divided into 25. From Wordnik.com. [Language Log] Reference
Conversely, there are Sinitic languages written in other scripts (e.g. From Wordnik.com. [Language Log] Reference
Dungan, which is written in Cyrillic), yet they are Sinitic nonetheless. From Wordnik.com. [Language Log] Reference
As several other commenters equally astutely pointed out, it is actually difficult to write full-blown colloquial Shanghainese in characters (ditto for Cantonese, Taiwanese, and the other Sinitic languages; we have discussed this extensively before. From Wordnik.com. [Language Log] Reference
7896+ C. E) (the present-day countries of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia); those shaped by Sinitic influences (Vietnam); and those influenced by mercantile connections to the Islamicate world (Malaya). From Wordnik.com. [4. Southeast Asia, c. 900-1557] Reference
Sinitic and Tibetic. From Wordnik.com. [Language Log] Reference
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