Chinese Language Day

20
April 2020

It pays tribute to the founder of the Chinese writing system Cangjie. According to legend, as the court historian of the mythical Yellow Emperor he developed a number of pictograms that eventually became the basis of the hieroglyphic system. Written Chinese is considered to be one of the most difficult languages in the world. Eighty thousand hieroglyphs are used to express all its richness, although only three to five thousand characters are employed in everyday speech. Besides, it is one the oldest languages in the world. The total of 1.3 billion people speak it worldwide. The great number of speakers has caused it to become one of the six official languages of the United Nations. 

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