Biscriptal juxtaposition in Chinese

Language Log 2014-08-17

Summary:

We have often seen how the Roman alphabet is creeping into Chinese writing, both for expressing English words and morphemes that have been borrowed into Chinese, but also increasingly for writing Mandarin and other varieties of Chinese in Pinyin (spelling).  Here are just a few earlier Language Log posts dealing with this phenomenon: "A New […]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=14054

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Tags:

borrowing topolects writing systems

Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

08/17/2014, 17:40

Date published:

08/17/2014, 17:03