UNIT 5 LANGUAGES AROUND THE WORLD Reading and Thinking英语教学课件.pptxVIP

ReadingandThinking—提升阅读能力·发展思维品质;Atthebeginning⑧，writtenChinesewasapicture-based⑨language.Itdatesbackseveralthousandyearsto⑩theuseoflonggu—animalbones?andshells??onwhichsymbols?werecarved?byancientChinesepeople.Someoftheancientsymbolscanstillbeseenintodayshanzi.

?BytheShangDynasty?(around1600－1046BCE),thesesymbolshadbecomeawell-developedwritingsystem.Overtheyears,thesystemdevelopedintodifferentforms,?asitwasatimewhenpeopleweredividedgeographically,leadingto?manyvarieties?ofdialects?andcharacters?.This,how