The linguistic principles of creating Alphabet and word orthogramms of Chinese putonghua
https://doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2020-3-23-5-15
Abstract
The Creation of the Alphabet and words spelling of Chinese Mandarin is a landmark event in the history of Chinese civilization. It breathes new life into ancient Chinese characters. Great “dumb” the Chinese character − for the first time since 1958 has become known to the whole world by sounds of Beijing speech. Today the two types of writing − Chinese Mandarin traditional ideographic and innovative phonographic writing, in their unity, provide the linguocultural unity of the Chinese society and the progress of science and technology of China. Millions of people in China and beyond are studying the Chinese language based on the sound letter standard of the words of Chinese Putonghua. Letter orthogramms of Chinese words provide tele- and Internet communication of hundreds of millions of Chinese. Based on the theory of Chinese phonological system elaborated within the frames of Russian Chinese studies, the technology of phonological system of Chinese in the alphabet and orthogramms of words of Chinese Putonghua is considered for the first time. Chinese alphabet, based on Latin letters and letter-spelling forms of Putonghua words are a huge scientific achievement of Chinese linguists. Outstanding contribution to the creation of the alphabet and letter words of Chinese Mandarin was made by a brilliant Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang (1906-2011), called the «father of pinyin zimu» or Chinese alphabet in China.
About the Author
A. N. Aleksakhin
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alexey N. Aleksakhin – Doctor of Science (Philology), Professor, Professor of the Department of Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai and Lao languages
76, Prospect Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119454
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Aleksakhin A.N. The linguistic principles of creating Alphabet and word orthogramms of Chinese putonghua. Linguistics & Polyglot Studies. 2020;23(3):5-15. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2020-3-23-5-15
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