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... native vocabulary has been enriched by thou- sands of words and phrases borrowed from the more ex- pressive Chinese , many of the old native terminations have fallen into disuse . One consequence of this long and VI PREFACE .
... native vocabulary has been enriched by thou- sands of words and phrases borrowed from the more ex- pressive Chinese , many of the old native terminations have fallen into disuse . One consequence of this long and VI PREFACE .
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... Chinese Style , or Sinico - Japanese , which is replete with Chinese words and idioms . It is founded on the literal translations of the Chinese classics , which were formerly the text - books in every school . This style is the ...
... Chinese Style , or Sinico - Japanese , which is replete with Chinese words and idioms . It is founded on the literal translations of the Chinese classics , which were formerly the text - books in every school . This style is the ...
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... Chinese origin , where they represent such Chinese diphthongs and nasal sounds as ao , ou , ang , ung , etc. When preceded by another vowel or by n , e sounds very nearly like ye , i like yi , and o like wo . Thus ue , kon - in and shio ...
... Chinese origin , where they represent such Chinese diphthongs and nasal sounds as ao , ou , ang , ung , etc. When preceded by another vowel or by n , e sounds very nearly like ye , i like yi , and o like wo . Thus ue , kon - in and shio ...
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... Chinese origin . y is always a consonant . Thus the syllable mya in myaku , " the pulse , " is pronounced as one syllable , like mia in the English word " amiable . " Care must be taken not to confound it with the dissyllable in such ...
... Chinese origin . y is always a consonant . Thus the syllable mya in myaku , " the pulse , " is pronounced as one syllable , like mia in the English word " amiable . " Care must be taken not to confound it with the dissyllable in such ...
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... Chinese , are entirely absent . There is little or no tonic accent , and only a very slight rhetorical accent ; that is to say , that all the syllables of a word and all the words of a sentence are pronounced equally , or nearly so ...
... Chinese , are entirely absent . There is little or no tonic accent , and only a very slight rhetorical accent ; that is to say , that all the syllables of a word and all the words of a sentence are pronounced equally , or nearly so ...
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