{"id":5016,"date":"2020-10-16T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5016"},"modified":"2026-09-09T18:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:31:20","slug":"a-brief-history-on-the-chinese-language-and-some-fun-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/a-brief-history-on-the-chinese-language-and-some-fun-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of the Chinese Language (and Some Fun Facts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5018\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/confuc.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5018\" class=\"wp-image-5018 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/confuc-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"Ancient Chinese status, showing the history of the Chinese language\" width=\"630\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/confuc-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/confuc-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/confuc-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/confuc.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo via <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/confucius-statue-china-sculpture-1124611\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you thought Chinese is a difficult language to learn, you thought right. Chinese is one of the oldest, untainted, inaccessible and most fascinating languages in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Rooted in the most densely populated and largest economy, it\u2019s understandable, and maybe inevitable, that businesses, institutions and individuals are starting to take Chinese seriously.<\/p>\n<p>If Chinese has also piqued your interest, then knowing its origins will prepare you for an enriching and troublesome journey. as a wise man once said: \u201cIt is wise to dig the well before you are thirsty\u201d. Let&#8217;s bring you up to speed with the <span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;history of the chinese language&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}\">history of the Chinese language<\/span>!<\/p>\n<p>But before reading on, make sure you know these 10 facts that make Chinese unique!<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3_7XqyCglQU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Squiggles, Strokes and Dashes<\/h2>\n<p>So, just what is Chinese exactly, other than a cacophony of tones and incoherent squiggles? Regionally it is known as <i>zh\u014dng w\u00e9n<\/i>, and it hosts a tremendous amount of characters: around 40,000 in fact. And to make matters <del>worse<\/del> more exciting, Mandarin (<i>h\u00e0n y\u01d4<\/i>) consists of 5 tones, whilst Cantonese has 4-6. No wonder Chinese seems so abstruse to the un-toned English speaker.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to distinguish between its written and spoken forms, as the two are not so interconnected like most European languages. The former is very very old, potentially dating all the way back to the Shang Dynasty &#8211; that\u2019s over 3,000 years ago! But remarkably, Chinese, in its written form, has endured wars, invasions and one dynasty after another, with only a few alterations due to political changes (e.g. opening her borders to the outside world). Whereas spoken Chinese developed more disparately, evolving into 8 different linguistic groups and hundreds of dialects: each one originating from the Sino-Tibetan language family, and each one tonal.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5017\" style=\"width: 457px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bones.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5017\" class=\"wp-image-5017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bones.jpg\" alt=\"Piece wood containing inscriptions in ancient Chinese languages\" width=\"447\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bones.jpg 532w, https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bones-250x256.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bones-120x123.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo via <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oracle_bone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Fun Fact no. 1<\/h2>\n<p><i>The first records of written Chinese in the <span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;history of the chinese language&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}\">history of the Chinese language<\/span> were etched into turtle shells and animal bones used to predict future events &#8211; giving them the name oracle bones (see image below).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Due to the medley of mutually intelligible dialects that had developed, China\u2019s 20th-century government(s) sought to replace traditional language, based on 2,000-year-old written language, with the more colloquial-styled language of Beijing. But the movement yielded mixed results, adding to rather than replacing the <span data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style=\"font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Arial';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;\">ancient Chinese languages<\/span>. And despite attempts to simplify the traditional written language, it continues to characterise academic books and articles.<\/p>\n<h2>Fun Fact no. 2<\/h2>\n<p><i>Confucius, a Chinese philosopher, largely inspired traditional written Chinese due to his <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/history.cultural-china.com\/features\/confucianclassics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Chinese Classic texts<\/i><\/a><em>. These texts are key to understanding the history of the Chinese language.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Generally speaking, Chinese is composed of monosyllabic words, word elements and a fixed word order (namely due to a lack of markers to indicate inflection). The good news is that its syntax follows a \u201csubject-verb-object\u201d order (e.g. \u201cI love Chinese\u201d), which suits an English speaker.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news is that after you master this stage it gets a lot more complicated, especially when practising the tones. Such qualities are present in all the major Chinese languages\/dialects, like Wu, Min, Gan, Kejia, Hakka, Xiang (Hunanese), Yue (Cantonese). But, unsurprisingly, the world has become much more fixated on Mandarin.<\/p>\n<h2>Fun Fact no. 3<\/h2>\n<p><i>Chinese history can be divided into four groups: Old Chinese (11th \u2013 7th centuries B.C.E.), Middle Chinese (7th \u2013 10th centuries C.E.) and Contemporary Chinese.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Today, besides being the most widely spoken form of Chinese, Mandarin is natively spoken by 14.4% of the world\u2019s population \u2013 making it the most spoken language worldwide. Technically there are four dialects of Mandarin: Southwestern, Southern, Northwestern and Northern Mandarin. The latter, centred in and around Beijing, sets the standard for <i>P\u016dt\u014dnghu\u00e0<\/i> (the common language). But a lot of care and attention must be paid to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/06\/23\/chinese-tones\/\">the 5 Chinese tones<\/a> &#8211; level, rising, falling, high-rising and neutral &#8211; in order to differentiate meanings.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5019\" style=\"width: 622px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/writing.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5019\" class=\"wp-image-5019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/writing-700x349.png\" alt=\"Chinese characters, a development in the history of the Chinese language\" width=\"612\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/writing-700x349.png 700w, https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/writing-250x124.png 250w, https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/writing-120x59.png 120w, https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/writing.png 835w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo via <a href=\"http:\/\/%20https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/chinese-letter-black-white-writing-39774\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Fun fact no. 4 (well, not really fun)<\/h2>\n<p><i>The adoption of Mandarin in Sichuan, China\u2019s second-largest province, was largely due to a plague that depopulated the area in the 12th century, allowing travellers from north China to settle and replace the other <span data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style=\"font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Arial';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;\">ancient Chinese languages<\/span>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>P\u012bny\u012bn, also spelt <i>p\u012bn-y\u012bn<\/i>, is the official romanised transcription of Chinese used to standardise Beijing\u2019s dialect of Mandarin across China, and, thankfully, to help us mere mortals grasp this complex language. This is one of the most crucial events in the <span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;history of the chinese language&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}\">history of the Chinese language<\/span>. Although adopted by the Committee on Language Reform in 1956, it was only done so provisionally, but it frequents most language learning materials, dictionaries, and, more recently, it has become a popular writing style for texting due to the ubiquity of touch-screen devices (Chinese characters are beautiful but pretty time consuming).<\/p>\n<p>So there you are, some historical and fun facts on the Chinese language. For any budding learners out there. Hopefully, this gives you some insights into its uniquely archaic and enlightening qualities. Speaking of enlightenment, here\u2019s one last fun fact to keep you inspired.<\/p>\n<h2>Fun Fact no. 5<\/h2>\n<p><i>A journey of a thousand miles starts with one step. Good luck!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And if you are ready to start your Chinese learning journey, what are you waiting for to take your first step? Whether you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/studycli.org\/study-abroad-in-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study abroad in China<\/a>, get a job in the country, or get acquainted with this millennial culture, our native-speaking instructors can help you! They will teach you all tips and tricks you need to make the most out of your trip there, and can even introduce you to the <span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;history of the chinese language&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}\">history of the Chinese language<\/span>. And if you want to get a deeper understanding of the culture, our tutors can prepare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/mandarin-chinese-courses.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tailor-made online classes<\/a> that suit your every need! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.co.uk\/contact-us.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact us to get started.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Article updated on September 17, 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you thought Chinese is a difficult language to learn, you thought right. 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