title: Alphabets in the History of the Chinese Language
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metadata.value: Zavyalova, Olga I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-03-04T18:41:06Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-03-04T18:41:06Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Zavyalova O. I. Alphabets in the History of the Chinese Language. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2021, vol. 13, issue 4, pp. 604–618.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2021.409
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/35474
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Various phonographic variants of script, both for Chinese and for the neighboring languages
  using Chinese characters, had been created long before contacts with the West and the appearance
  of any Romanization systems in the region. Two official alphabets, the ʼPhags-pa and the
  Yìsītìfēi (Istīfā) scripts, and likely the nonofficial Arabographic Xi ˇа ojī ng writing system were
  introduced for the Chinese language already in the period of the Mongol Yuan dynasty. A syllabic
  character-based ‘women’s script’ Nǚshū was invented for the Southern Hunan Tǔhuà
  dialects at the turn of the Ming period or evidently much earlier. Modern information technologies
  and the possibilities of computer typesetting, in particular, have inevitably changed
  even the official character texts written in Standard Chinese. To a greater extent, these changes
  are known to have affected the language of the computer-mediated communication with its
  often unusual forms of Latin spelling for Chinese words. In many cases, however, Chinese
  Internet users and primarily speakers of various dialects prefer to use even for the all-China
  lexicon not only Latin variants, but also phonetically borrowed characters. Thus, they follow
  the centuries-old traditions of nonofficial texts including those in the medieval Báihuà vernacular
  language with its numerous phonetically or semantically borrowed characters from
  official Literary Chinese.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 13; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Chinese language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Chinese dialects
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Chinese alphabets
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Nǚshū
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ʼPhags-pa script
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Yìsītìfēi (Istīfā) script
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Xiǎojīng (Xiǎoérjīng) script
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Internet language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Alphabets in the History of the Chinese Language
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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