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| Chinese language Hànyǔ, Zhōngwén Chinese_language
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| Presbyterianism Presbyterianism is a family of Christian denominations within the Reformed branch of Protestant Western Christianity. Hallmarks include Calvinist theology and the presbyterian form of church governance. Presbyterianism
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| Min Nan / Bân-lâm-gú Min_Nan
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| John DeFrancis John DeFrancis (born 1911) is a Chinese language professor emeritus and researcher at the University of Hawaii who wrote a number of Chinese instructional texts (his Readers series is particularly well regarded) in the 1960s and 1970s. Although some of his spoken language texts are now considered to be outdated, he remains an important figure in Chinese language and linguistic research. John_DeFrancis
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| Tarim Basin The Tarim Basin () is a large endorheic basin occupying an area of more than 400,000 km². It is located in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China's far west. Tarim_Basin
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| Proto-Indo-European language Talk:Proto-Indo-European_language
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| State of Yue Yue () was a state in China which existed during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in modern Zhejiang. During the Springs and Autumns, its capital was in Guiji (会稽), near the modern city of Shaoxing. State_of_Yue
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| Tarim mummies The Tarim mummies are a series of Caucasoid mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1800 BCE to 200 CE. The mummies, particularly the early ones, are frequently associated with the presence of the Indo-European Tocharian languages in the Tarim BasinBaumer, Christoph. Tarim_mummies
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| Victor H. Mair Victor H. Mair (born 1943) is Professor of Chinese Language and Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States. Victor_H._Mair
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| Varieties of Chinese Chinese forms part of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. About one-fifth of the people in the world speak some variety of Chinese as their native language. Varieties_of_Chinese
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| Haplogroup R1a (Y-DNA) Talk:Haplogroup_R1a_(Y-DNA)
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| Fangyan The Fāngyán (; literally meaning "regional speech"), edited by Yang Xiong, was the first Chinese dictionary of dialectal terms. The full title is Yóuxuān shǐzhĕ juédài yǔ shì biéguó fāngyán (輶軒使者絕代語釋別國方言) "Dialect words of other states in times immemorial explained by the Light-Carriage Messenger," which alludes to a Zhou Dynasty tradition of imperial emissaries who made annual surveys of regional vocabulary throughout China. Fangyan
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| HongQiGong/Archive 2 User_talk:HongQiGong/Archive_2
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| Chinese dictionary Chinese dictionaries date back over two millennia to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, which is a significantly longer lexicographical history than any other language. There are hundreds of dictionaries for Chinese, and this article will introduce some of the most important. Chinese_dictionary
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| English language English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the first language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the Anglophone Caribbean. It is used extensively as a second language and as an official language throughout the world, especially in Commonwealth countries and in many international organisations. English_language
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| Sino-Platonic Papers Sino-Platonic Papers (SPP) is a scholarly monograph series edited by Victor H. Mair. Sino-Platonic_Papers
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| Deflexion (linguistics) Deflexion is a linguistic process related to inflectional languages. All members of the Indo-European language family belong to these kinds of languages and are subject to some degree of deflexional change. Deflexion_(linguistics)
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| Daur language The Daur language is a language primarily spoken by members of the Daur ethnic group. Daur_language
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| PericlesofAthens/Archive 3 User_talk:PericlesofAthens/Archive_3
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| Mind monkey Mind monkey or Monkey mind, from Chinese xinyuan and Sino-Japanese shin'en 心猿 [lit. "heart-/mind-monkey"], is a Buddhist term meaning "unsettled; restless; capricious; whimsical; fanciful; inconstant; confused; indecisive; uncontrollable". Mind_monkey
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