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Appendix 2 from 'The Dispute of Dao - Philosophical Argument in Ancient China' by A.C. Graham
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Classical Chinese is a language of mainly monosyllabic words, each syllable with its own written character, organised by word-order and the placing and functions of grammatical particles. The script is not, as used to be supposed, ideographic; different monosyllabic words, however near they approach synonymity, are written with different graphs, and particles like other words have their own graphs. The combination of graphic wealth with phonetic poverty has the result that the etymology of a word and its relation to similarly sounding monosyllables is displayed in the structure of the graph rather than of the vocable. The graph serves also to identify the same word throughout different Chinese dialects (which by the test of mutual intelligibility are in many cases distinct languages) and throughout the whole history of the script. The intelligibility of Classical Chinese however pronounced has been one of the great unifying and stabilising factors in Chinese civilization.
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relation of chinese thought to chinese language
