Search results for "Languages of China" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Southeast Asia, sometimes abbreviated to SEA, is a subregion of Asia ... The maritime region consists of Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- The Secret of the Golden Flower ("Tai Yi Jin Hua Zong Zhi" ... “The Secret of the Golden Flower” is an esoteric guide to Daoist ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- orang utan, and orangutang) is any member of two species of great apes with ... Hominoidea (order Primates). Members of the Hominidae family, which ...14 KB (1,986 words) - 10:40, 11 March 2023
- typically distinguished by their practice of Islam. The Hui form the third ... dietary laws and reject the consumption of pork, the most common meat ...26 KB (3,824 words) - 15:11, 9 February 2024
- During the Goryeo and Joseon dynasties of Korea, the royal courts ... Based on the civil service examinations of imperial China, the gwageo ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 06:03, 27 July 2023
- famed for his encyclopedic knowledge of Indian and Vedantic learning ... Kumarajiva is mostly remembered for the prolific translation of Buddhist ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- Solomon Islands is a nation in Melanesia, east of Papua New Guinea ... over the Solomon Islands in the 1890s. Some of the bitterest fighting of World ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 14:00, 3 May 2024
- In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand formed by eolian ... Some coastal areas have one or more sets of dunes running parallel ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 17:21, 12 February 2024
- ; Postal map spelling: Shansi) is a province of the People's ... refers to the province's location west of the Taihang Mountains. Its ...23 KB (3,285 words) - 13:15, 27 January 2023
- ; also romanized as Nei Mongol) is a Mongol autonomous region of the ... The official languages of Inner Mongolia are Standard Mandarin and ...33 KB (4,665 words) - 19:29, 5 March 2024
- quot;) is a province on the southern coast of the People's Republic ... cational/languages/asia.htm]Languages of China. oclc.org. Retrieved ...24 KB (3,310 words) - 02:43, 5 March 2023
- The Culture of China (Chinese: 中國文化) is home to one of the ... was already rich and essential in the period of antiquity called the pre-Chin ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- MARC is an acronym, used in the field of library science, that stands ... The future of the MARC formats is a matter of some debate in the worldwide ...10 KB (1,427 words) - 04:45, 5 November 2022
- It was in use centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu-Arabic numeral ... replacing it for practical reasons, the use of the abacus continues to be ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- Manichaeism is an extinct dualistic religion of Iranian origin, founded ... an ongoing struggle between the forces of good and evil in the universe ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- A number written in decimal notation involves the use of one or more ... apparent when compared with the system of using Roman numerals. The decimal ...18 KB (2,501 words) - 09:02, 28 January 2024
- southern Manchuria (present-day northeast China), southern Russian Maritime ... the second century B.C.E., around the fall of Gojoseon, an earlier kingdom ...29 KB (4,387 words) - 08:36, 19 December 2022
- poet. Along with the other nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, Sappho's ... What fragments do remain show glimpses of her genius, as well as giving ...13 KB (2,038 words) - 03:24, 23 December 2022
- A printing press is a mechanical device to print many copies of text ... technologies had been developed in ancient China and Korea a few hundred years ...16 KB (2,311 words) - 18:44, 29 April 2023
- The Sultanate of Sulu was a Muslim state that ruled over many of the ... network, and Spanish troops overran the city of Jolo and built a walled garrison ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 21:54, 26 February 2023
