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Chenla or Zhenla (Chinese: 真臘; pinyin: Zhēnlà; Wade–Giles: Chen-la; Khmer: ចេនឡា, romanized: Chénla, Khmer pronunciation:; Vietnamese: Chân Lạp) is the Chinese designation for the vassal of the kingdom of Funan [1] preceding the Khmer Empire that existed from around the late 6th to the early 9th century in Indochina.
In China, letters of the English alphabet are pronounced somewhat differently because they have been adapted to the phonetics (i.e. the syllable structure) of the Chinese language. The knowledge of this spelling may be useful when spelling Western names, especially over the phone, as one may not be understood if the letters are pronounced as ...
The Sambor Prei Kuk historical complex has been identified as Isanapura, the 7th century capital of Chenla. [ 4 ] The main temples at Sambor Prei Kuk are said to have been founded by King Isanavarman I.
Kingdom of Characters is the third book authored by Jing Tsu, a professor of comparative literature and East Asian languages and literature at Yale University. [1] Her previous two books, Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937 and Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora, also covered Chinese linguistic history.
Mahendravarman was a king of the kingdom of Chenla, modern day Cambodia, during the 6th century.Chenla was the direct predecessor of the Khmer empire.Citrasena was a ...
In future, we shall adopt the Latin alphabet for the Chinese phonetic alphabet. Being in wide use in scientific and technological fields and in constant day-to-day usage, it will be easily remembered. The adoption of such an alphabet will, therefore, greatly facilitate the popularization of the common speech [i.e. Putonghua (Standard Chinese ...
This has occurred in other contexts as well: Nüshu was a script used by Yao women to write the Xiangnan Tuhua language, [167] and bopomofo (注音符号; 注音符號; zhùyīn fúhào) is a semi-syllabary first invented in 1907 [168] to represent the sounds of Standard Chinese; [169] both use forms graphically derived from Chinese characters.
Latinxua Sin Wenz (Chinese: 拉丁化新文字; pinyin: Lādīnghuà Xīn Wénzì; lit. 'Latinized New Script' [a]) is a historical set of romanizations for Chinese.Promoted as a revolutionary reform to combat illiteracy and replace Chinese characters, Sin Wenz distinctively does not indicate tones, for pragmatic reasons and to encourage the use of everyday colloquial language.