Sinophone
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Sinophone is an adjective meaning Alternative letter-case form of Sinophone.
Meaning
Alternative letter-case form of Sinophone.
Example Sentences
Of course, local colloquial Chinese was for everybody the everyday language, as all of them were undivided sinophones.
Chu Ci 楚辞, or The Songs of the South (third century BC), one of the earliest anthologies of Classical Chinese poetry, is probably the least known work outside the sinophone or sinologist circles.
It mandates that all sinophones be put in exactly the same position as all anglophones, for otherwise the former’s right to use Chinese would be a lesser right than the right of the latter to use English.
With this final chapter, then, this book’s focus on the PRC literary system gradually gives way to a discussion of a wider range of writings belonging to the realm of sinophone (or sinographic) literature.
Word Forms
- sinophones
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include colingual, yiish, pentalingual, panlinguistic, nonalingual, malayophone.
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