作者linyian (St. Catz College)
看板Linguistics
標題Re: [問題] Mandarin? Chinese? Mandarin Chinese?
時間Mon Nov 13 18:25:05 2006
以下引用OED:
2. In form Mandarin. a. The form of the Chinese language formerly used by
officials and educated people generally; any of the varieties of this used as
a standard language in China, spec. the Northern variety, which forms the
basis of putonghua (see PUTONGHUA n.). Cf. earlier Mandarin tongue, sense 5a
and KUO-YU n.
An important early European study of Mandarin was Francisco Varo's Arte de
la Lengue Mandarina (1703), the earliest published grammar of any spoken form
of Chinese.
1728 E. CHAMBERS Cycl. s.v., Their publick officers, as Notaries, Lawyers,
Judges, and chief Magistrates, write and speak the Mandarin. 1731 N. BAILEY
Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II, Mandarin, the language spoken by the
Mandarins and in the court of China. 1788 GIBBON Decline & Fall IV. p. vii,
We are pleased to blend the three Chinese monosyllables, Con-fu-tzee, in the
respectable name of Confucius, or even to adopt the Portuguese corruption of
Mandarin. 1860 J. R. EDKINS Chinese Scenes (1863) 165 My husband's knowledge
of their language (the Mandarin). 1887 Chinese Times 11 June 502/1 The
bishop's style, call it Wen li or Mandarin, is admirably clear and idiomatic.
1917 S. COULING Encycl. Sinica 143/1 Mandarin or Kuan hua is the spoken
language of about two-thirds of China.There are three forms of it, spoken
typically in Peking, Nanking and Chengtu... It would seem absurd to call
mandarin a dialect, since it is the tongue of 250,000,000 people. 1966
Chambers's Encycl. III. 483/2 After the founding of the republic (1911),
Mandarin, as p'ut'unghua (speech universally understood) or Kuoyii (the
national language) was chosen as the standard language. 1994 N.Y. Times Mag.
27 Nov. 31/3 On Chinese television, he will do a rap song, in Cantonese and
Mandarin.
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推 minus273:我的母語就是一個Mandarin,但絕對不是普通話 11/13 18:27
※ 編輯: linyian 來自: 131.111.225.75 (11/13 18:28)
→ linyian:m大 這注釋裡面沒說Mandarin=普通話啊 11/13 18:38
推 MilchFlasche:喔喔okay……所以還是證明Mandarin本泛指官話沒錯… 11/13 19:00