What Is a Topic-Prominent Language? In linguistics, a topic-prominent language organizes sentences around a topic and a comment, rather than strictly following subject-verb-object roles. This…
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Understanding Basic Word Order in Chinese: SVO
In linguistic typology, SVO stands for Subject–Verb–Object This means that in a sentence, the subject comes first, followed by the verb, and then the object.…
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Understanding the Features of Modern Chinese
In Hong Kong, we commonly refer to the Chinese language as “中文” It belongs to the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Compared to…
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What Is an Analytic Language?
An analytic language is a type of language classification, opposite to synthetic languages The most well-known analytic language is Chinese. Interestingly, some languages that weren’t…
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