The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-07-31
PoLFGLoT CHINA.
f"o'' Not seneraiiS known Cor c~rnins the
'reeeh OF That Great E.spire.

,, rom Ne o%r'ni.ch.r lloyd
Canton. sH hen INT thG inhabitants Of Pekin.
a O," s parts Of p IN the s SSSe
nnw nr samn9t Understand the inhabitants
shman parsS aI DSa RSrner Tp sp 16s
p wbars m OF the .hnann in his own country.
rather pocuia so-Cf ILL., dialects are spoken. Is
t tSSto RHh 'srm sn d They used
And uneducated and The cao1;ss
rioSs aa iaien, y ia anSuage by ITSELF The va.
one another In somewhat tia same ' mennep NO
me hra6ic to- the IlcGrcw. syrian, and "th"r
fDs anish s s%ssdsS Or 10 English. Dutch
a,ects se ass,ranle to classify the numerous di.
HeIRa .h Smav may be dvled into the Canton
Hainancse. and the Mandnrin, The vounoesf
OF These dialects is the Mandarin. Mandarin
universal 20 ia iS sensF% mrresso9 is not the
ssompG g, bles the ancient Chinese spoken
DARN y' Tbe h Hsb ors GIssey than the Man
ain.uiuity. ~ H. much oldcrthan the Mandarin
f a,mTss enna!lnG in point Of age the Canton
SAID oi the Swatow. Annoy and Shanghai din
Euases Ia sp genera We my say that the Lam
Traces Of .hs anec SiutHhGSs,srn China shay
the Mandarin tongue is modern. ""'''
tjns. ADDITION thn r, to these main divisions"
quasi dialects. spoken in some in stances by
thousands Of people. But tho same word
IN q single district. although the districts
thfic divisions MS rule arc much smaller
than than those in the countries Of western Europe
miles often use totally different dialect forms
~ some OF the larger cities. such US Canton,
oitnh ilnds several diAlert forms in use. The
E nIs ,S IN the Chinese tongue are 50 great
there sn' m Is hat pG much tp sEE tina,
hinEdo'n ns days in the year.
N The most, widely spread language is the
In fourteen or fifteen of the nineteen provinces
composing China. There are also Northern
and southern Mandarin tongues. The best
Northern Mandarin dialect IS spoken in Pekin.
" wh Vel the best southern Maniarin is spoken
Tsien- kiang, People who speak the various
Mnnlnrian dialects. however. can understand
lation Of Chinn Mt 36O.UOO.OOO OF people at
least OO,u0O.OOo use the Mandarin tongue.
desire to. enter political or Official life
The other Chinese languages are spoken
~ c,,mlp ' nh small Numbers Of people.
esq in one form or another It IS Used In the
about one third Of the people of this province
n nsr ne ne itaKaa t2nEn IN IT. northeastern
pap is sG s S%a,oM 1nct b s "s" heard canton
There are not so many dialectic forms of the
Hakka tongueas of the Cantonese. Passing up
ing swatow. In all probability 10000 chi
neSe Use the Annoy dialect. which resembles
Swatow about rs closely as Portuguese re-
sembies Spanish. still further up the coast
we find the Futwa dialect 1t is used In a dis
trict about loo miles long and 800 miles
This country is for the most pa mountainous.
The dialects OF Nineho and Shanghai. al
though only n few miles apart, ditier greatly.
The Eiainaneso is spoken BY the people Of
Hainan. 1t is related to the Annoy and Swatow
Enthusiastically resembling the Japanese
lnll nj
The inhabitants OF about Lutshu. between
Japan ana Formosa. a SO speak Ha inanese.
~, The Introduction Of u uniform language in
ago the Emperor Kans- hi founded schools in
various parts Of the empire in the hope OF
accom- fishing that end. but the result was
Disappointing 1T mas DO accomplished in the
future when railroads in various parts Of the
Centuries viii pass ny before that time. how
ever The Mandarin tongue. If any.
will become the universal one in China