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THE NEW CHINESE ALPHABET.

Mr. Crawford Marrison Bishop, Jecturer in Chinese. New York University, cun. tributes to the Chòm Review (New York) an artigle in which he says:

Each word is illustrated by a picture of the abject. It is a method of teaching by sight simultaneously with teaching by sound.

The Committee for the Promotion of Phonetic Writing above referred to is an unofficial body. But a Commission on the Standardization of the Sounds of the Nat'enal Language has been formed under The increasing importance which trade the auspices of the Ministry of Education with China is coming to copy in the anal of the Chinese Government. As a result. Toreign trade of the United States of the many Sessions of this Commission, phasizes anew the importanen of quipping the 30

were clleially, adosted in finow who were to handle this traie-nikk #pepersent the various arti

working knowledge of the janguage.) in the standardized national;

In This is not a diffealt a matter as Thany 1013 classis for tenching the alphabet wete

For in recent retablished On November 23rd, 1918, th have heyetofore supposed.

herp Ministry Education, on the recommen years the Chinese language bas Simplified to a point where an Americanation of this Commission and other organ grammar School day ur girl can master the izations oficially proclaimed the alphabet in a Ministerial Order and sanctioned its alphabet.

aching in the schools and popularization acquire in 'n few months a working kuwung the puple.

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By means of this new alphabet one can

edge of the spuka language and can learn tpak fluently in less than a year, and

to read nay thing written in phonetic seript HONGKONG SHARE MARKET

alter a few weeks practice

The new method of spelling Chinese words is a phonetic system. It has 39 simple character which, written singly or in cubination, sin, represent every word in the Mandarin" dialect, Mandarin is the dialect of Peking, which is the official or national language of the Re- public of China, and which is understood?" by vedented persons in all parts of the

conuty.

These 30 symbols or characters take'} the place of the 50,000 ar 150,000 characters anking up the written Chinese language. It will be possible by teyrning these to acquire a vocabulary much more quickly add easily than by having to learn the characters used in The olif system.

This Alphabet consists of 24 initial isters, the medial letters and twelve final letter Strictly speaking they represant not always a single lett. of the Engilsh nipualet, but frequently several letters: consting of memor. vowels or a guwel agon or mere causonants.

Chinese words are all of one syllable, so that it will act nanily require more than three of these synthols, to represent a single word,

It must remembered, however, that

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November 27th at 17.27 - Pressure changes

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The typhoon appears to be nearly stacion-

the spelling of Chinese words with Engary in about Lat. 13 deg. X. and Long, 131 |lish letters is

Hani u the system of deg. E.

it is called, which Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending

has be adopted for a la dictionariest 18 hours, 27th November, 0.00 inch. Total and text-books. This spelling itself is net since January 1st, 106.42 inches, against an strictly phonetle" and American average of 81,84 inches. stadent must Brst learn to pronounes the words as they are written in this system before he can repiclue the Chinese sounds

As our example, the letter "K" pro- nounced Uk. ** GL," while (with the apostrophe is pronounced exactly like K. The went for light is Chinese is

kuang

The forecast for the 24 hours anding at 18 hours, Nov 25th is as follows:-

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fine.

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This is pronouncedaug." Hongkong to Gap Rock E. winds, moderate; Sometim. a single symbol represents n Chinese word, and this may he either one of the initial or modini er final symbols. The word for is in Chinese is spelled **shih"

Con

The simplicity of the. neir symbols pared with the complexity of the old character may be so by counting the number of strokes necessary to make the two. In the letter A for example, only

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while the character whose sound it repre septs requires ten strokes.

In some cases the new bol represents

an actual Chinese character or word. Forj

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or part of actual words. Chinese characters of the old seatzen are generally composed of two elements: one

Phonetic. I represent indien," repre the sound, And the other callest the senting the meaning. The new system has to relation to the old. it omits the ** Fadient " altogether, and in place of a -phonetie it uses an artificially selected set of symbols to represent certain wounds. Its enly analogy is to the Japanese “Kann which performs for the Japanes the same service that the new phonetic system per- forms for the Chinese,

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The Chinese read down the columns, hinning at the right side of the page. writing or spelling out the Chinese words the me order is followed, the symbols be ing written in a straight line down the column from top to bottom, the column commencing to the left of the first. The medials, as well as the inital symbols, may wanetin be used to begin a word,

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It should be remembered also that any one of the symbols--whether initial, medial or final-aay be used alone to re- present a word.

The phonetic system, first introduced by

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It is being used in as many as thirty different publications in China.

The new phonetic system substitutes for some 888 complicated phonetics of the old system, the

of the simple 3 symbols new. It is not necessary

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able to look up the meaning of a wurd. Words may now be lonked up in the dic tion under their Romanized spelling in- stead of, as heretofore, under their Chinese radical.

The new system does not indicate which of the four tones" is to be given to a word. This does not constitute a difficulty for the native Chine for whom the sys tem was devised. But it may cause some difficulty to the foreign student, who is not

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The meaning of a Chinese word Varis with the "ten In which it i attered, Consequently, the foreign stud ent, if he does not know the toge,"nr the old style Chine character, may be unable to find the mentier in the diction- unlwit ceur in a phrase of two or more words, when he may be able to Jocale it.

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It should be remembered that "the phoretic step was primarily designet for Chinese to learn to redd, not for foreign students to learn to speak Chinge. Never- theles, the student may require a vocabul. ary much more nuickly through using the phoretic systems than by the slow process of memorizing the old Chiresa characters....

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