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3 - The Chinese Expansion and Language Coexistence in Modern China

from Part One - Language Contact and Genetic Linguistics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2022

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Randy J. LaPolla
Edited by
Salikoko S. Mufwene  and
Anna María Escobar
Salikoko S. Mufwene
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
Anna María Escobar
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Summary

This chapter outlines the history of the development and spread of what became what we now know as the Sinitic (Chinese) languages and the effects that migrations, cultural contact, and national policies had on the development. This includes the initial migrations into Asia and then again from the Yellow River valley to the surrounding areas. These later migrations were generally into areas where other people already lived, and so there was mixing of the people and the cultures. This is one factor that created the different branches of Sinitic (“Chinese dialects”). The last section is on language coexistence in Modern China.

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Sinitic languageslanguage historylanguage contactChinese languagemigration
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The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
Volume 1: Population Movement and Language Change
 , pp. 64 - 83
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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