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The term Sinosphere is derived from Sino-'China' (cf. Sinophone) + -sphere, in the sense of the sphere of influence under the influence of a country. [26] The CJK languages—Chinese, Japanese, Korean—each use cognate terms to translate English sphere: Chinese quān (圈; 'circle', 'ring', 'pen')
The Sinosphere is the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area. The linguist James Matisoff coined the term "Sinosphere" in 1990, contrasting with the Indosphere , "I refer to the Chinese and Indian areas of linguistic/cultural influence in Southeast Asia as the 'Sinosphere' and the 'Indosphere'."
Sinosphere (linguistics), James Matisoff's name for the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area; Sinocentrism, an ideology that the lands which make up China is the cultural, political, or economic center of the world; Greater China, a geographical region comprising Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan
The Austroasiatic languages include Vietnamese and Khmer, as well as many other languages spoken in scattered pockets as far afield as Malaya and eastern India.Most linguists believe that Austroasiatic languages once ranged continuously across southeast Asia and that their scattered distribution today is the result of the subsequent migration of speakers of other language groups from southern ...
Sinophone, which means "Chinese-speaking", typically refers to an individual who speaks at least one variety of Chinese (that is, one of the Sinitic languages).Academic writers often use the term Sinophone in two definitions: either specifically "Chinese-speaking populations where it is a minority language, excluding mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan" or generally "Chinese-speaking ...
The Emperor Wu of Han is conventionally regarded as the first ruler to declare an era name. [1] [2] Prior to the introduction of the first era name in 140 BCE, Chinese monarchs utilized the Qianyuan (前元), Zhongyuan (中元) and Houyuan (後元) systems to identify and number years.
Sinosphere (linguistics), a term refers to the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Chinosphere .
In the Sinosphere, one's sixtieth birthday has traditionally held special significance.Especially when life expectencies were shorter, the sixtieth birthday was seen as a symbolic threshold for reaching old age and having lived a full life.