The population of China accounts to 1.5 billion and the counting does not stop here as many residing globally. Now the question arises how to exchange words with these people? No doubt like India, China too has the linguistic diversity and the prominent languages are Mandarin, Wu, Yue, Min but Mandarin is the known official language spoken widely by nearly 1 billion people. However over 60 to 80 million exchange their thoughts in Wu, Yue, and Min. These languages do not relate with each other and are complex to intelligible. The story of China does not end here as there are hundreds of other dialects too. Each dialect has its own unique lexicon which is mandatory to be followed while translations.
Let’s know more about Mandarin:
1. Mandarin is used for the official purposes.
2. It is considered as the primary language in various political and academic institutions.
3.It is mandatory in all the Chinese schools to teach Mandarin to Chinese students.
4.Mandarin is the official language in all Chinese federal and state work forces.
It is interesting to note that Mandarin is called as the English of the Chinese world. All the business ventures and other affairs are carried out in Mandarin in the China and Taiwan just like English in India.
The testaments of the Chinese writings clear that this contemporary language is not new-fangled but had its origin near 1400BC. Characters of the Chinese language are named as Logographs. The problem that was confronted by the Chinese scholars is the difficulty in the adaptation of these symbols. So, to the ease of Chinese people these characters were simplified.
Some characters are there which do not form the part of the Logographs but they hold a new category called ideographs. So Mandarin supports very deep semantics and Chinese translations rely on these characters. Our translators at TRANSLATION SERVICES IN NEW YORK are reliable and know the technicality of the Mandarin language.
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