Influences of Chinese language and its characters分析和总结最新分析和总结.docxVIP

Influences of Chinese language and its characters Chinese characters represent ideas in a broad sense. They sometimes have a reference to a general sound embodied in them. The large influence that Chinese culture has made on its range of influence, remains in writing systems of Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese. In an earlier historical period, the Chinese character script was the only script used to write the languages of Japan, Korea and Vietnam, three countries that are Chinas closest neighbors. A number of Chinese characters are still used today to write certain Japanese words and a lesser number of Chinese characters are still in use to write Korean. On the other hand, the language of Vietnam has now gone over entirely to an all-Latin alphabet. Even though the Japanese people could easily develop a new set of written characters to replace the Chinese characters that they still use, there would definitely be a great deal of bother with such a change, since everyone would have to learn the new character system. Chinese characters is an integral part of Japanese cultural history that represent Japans relationship to China. So there is a certain degree of integrity involved in preserving the ancient written Chinese characters. During the colonial period, when Vietnam was under French influence, the French language replaced Chinese as the official language of government and of the state education system. Ch n?m was widespread but limited from the 17th century onward. Though only as a literary language, Chinese writing continued to be the primary written language of Vietnam. During the colonial period, when Vietnam was under French influence, the French language replaced Chinese as the official language of government. However, it is widely recognized that about 60% of the modern Vietnamese vocabulary can be identified as Sino-Vietnamese in origin. In the 1440s, Koreans developed their own language. Prior to this, the Chinese characters was employed by the Koreans. For