• DOI:10.1515/LINGTY.2007.014
• Corpus ID: 123103670

Chinese linguistics and typology: The state of the art

@inproceedings{Chappell2007ChineseLA,
  title={Chinese linguistics and typology: The state of the art},
  author={Hilary Chappell and Liang Ming and Alain Peyraube},
  year={2007}
}

• H. Chappell, Liang Ming, Alain Peyraube
• Published 20 July 2007
• Linguistics

Abstract 1. Introduction China possesses rich linguistic resources which remain relatively untapped: the ten main Sinitic languages or dialect groups account for roughly 93% of the population (Mandarin, Jin, Xiang, Gan, Hui, Wu, Min, Kejia, Yue, and Pinghua); the remaining 7% comprise the many different “minority” languages in long term contact with Sinitic such as Tibeto-Burman, Mongolian, Hmong, and Tai. In an almost unprecedented state of affairs, written records for Chinese extend without a break 3,000 years into the past, furnishing a rich documentation for any kind of historical study.