2006-11-01 15:10:25 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
The answer is none...Chinese is not like English, they dont have alphabet, a word is a word.
2006-11-01 15:19:22 · answer #1 · answered by MikeZ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Languages: "There are many Chinese dialects in China. It is hard to guess how many dialects exist, but they can be roughly classified into one of the seven large groups, i.e., Putonghua (Mandarin), Gan, Kejia (Hakka), Min, Wu, Xiang and Yue (Cantonese). Each language group contains a large number of dialects. These are the Chinese languages spoken mostly by the Han people, which represents about 92 percent of the total population. " (1st link for more info)
Dialects: 2,548 (2nd link below)
Alphabet or characters:
"Compared to the number of letters in any western alphabet, the total number of these symbols in the Chinese writing system is staggering. Even to be able to read a novel, it is absolutely necessary to learn at least 3,000 symbols. People with college degrees are judged to have mastered about 6-7,000 of them, but some large dictionaries can contain as many as 60,000 characters." (last link below)
2006-11-02 02:23:14 · answer #2 · answered by Yahzmin ♥♥ 4ever 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no alphabet, but most words are made from
simpler words,so u dont wind up havin 20,000
unique symbols...woud be kinda hard
to learn
2006-11-01 15:44:39 · answer #3 · answered by heartofglass 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋