Assignment-1

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Are the following statements true or false (Mark T or F) ?

1. Chinese is only one of  the many languages spoken in China. (   )

2. Most Chinese people’s native language or dialect is not standard mandarin. (   )

3. Regional varieties of Chinese are completely mutually unintelligible. (   )

4. There are many Chinese loan words in Japanese and Korean. (   )

5. Han Chinese people may speak differently but they share the same written Chinese language. (   )

6. Typologically, Chinese is more like Japanese in word order than English. (   )

7. Chinese belongs to Austro-Tai language family. (   )

8. Pinyin is a notation system for Standard Chinese,  IPA is a notation system for Chinese dialects. (   )

9. Simplified Chinese characters are used in mainland China, traditional Chinese characters are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong , Macau.(   )

10. Modern Chinese writing system is not the direct descendant of the Chinese writing system used more than 2 or 3 thousand years ago.(    )

N.B.: Each assignment is supposed to be handed in next time in class, delay(only 1 time allowed) influences assignment grading (2 points)