Search results for "Languages of China" - New World Encyclopedia
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- PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized map of human migration based on Mitochondrial ... prehistory and human history. The movement of populations in modern times ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- graphẽ "writing") is a form of ornamental handwriting ... may take precedence over the legibility of the letters. Well-crafted calligraphy ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken ... Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the tenth ...41 KB (5,525 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- landscape shaped by the dissolution of a soluble layer or layers of ... Different terms for karst topography exist in other languages—for ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 20:16, 28 February 2023
- a student leader. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature ... He is recognized as the leading architect of Burmese independence, and the ...17 KB (2,666 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- strong). Officially known as the Union of Myanmar, (also as Burma or ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh ( t=水滸傳|s=水浒传|p=Shuǐhǔ ... ) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature ...17 KB (2,616 words) - 23:16, 3 May 2023
- in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-L'este ... at 50 percent in 2001. About 42 percent of the East Timorese live below ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- yoga")Lindsay Jones (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Ed. (Macmillan ... The origins of the scholarly Indian Yogācāra tradition were rooted ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- Xīyóu-jì; Wade-Giles: Hsiyu-chi) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels ... The novel tells the entertaining story of the Buddhist monk Xuánzàng ...24 KB (3,989 words) - 01:59, 8 September 2022
- and formerly Vietnamese. Four percent of Chinese characters are derived ... parts where one indicates a general category of meaning and the other the sound ...55 KB (8,141 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- graphein - write) is the study and practice of making representations of the ... both a science and an art. The aesthetics of any given map will always be ...27 KB (4,007 words) - 00:45, 29 November 2023
- a gorge, valley, road, railroad track, body of water, or other physical obstacle ... The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 20:15, 11 March 2024
- Vietnam officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a nation in ... to 1975 brought Vietnam to the attention of the world. That war has been ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 20:16, 3 May 2023
- Malaysia is a federation of 13 states in Southeast Asia. ... The name "Malaysia" was adopted in 1963 when the Federation ...33 KB (4,723 words) - 14:30, 29 March 2024
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated UDHR) is a ... Eleanor Roosevelt, first chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 12:00, 3 May 2023
- Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is the most populous ... from the United Kingdom after decades of colonial rule. Nigeria re-achieved ...37 KB (5,342 words) - 16:58, 5 June 2023
- usually using a printing press or other kind of printing apparatus. It is often ... In photography, the process of making a picture on photosensitive ...36 KB (5,772 words) - 18:43, 29 April 2023
- (香|香 港|港), is one of the two special administrative regions ... Hong Kong was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1842 until ...55 KB (8,196 words) - 16:16, 25 January 2023
