南海 (other)
南海(남해), meaning "South Sea" in Chinese and Japanese, Korean may refer to: * Nanhai (other), the Chinese pinyin transliteration * Nankai (other), the Japanese transliteration * Namhae (other) Namhae may refer to: Geography * Namhae (sea), the region of ocean near Korea * Namhae County, a county in South Korea * Namhaedo or Namwee Island, an island in South Korea ** Namhae Bridge, which connects Namhaedo and the mainland * Namhae Cast ...

Chinese Language
Chinese (, especially when referring to written Chinese) is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China. About 1.3 billion people (or approximately 16% of the world's population) speak a variety of Chinese as their first language. Chinese languages form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages family. The spoken varieties of Chinese are usually considered by native speakers to be variants of a single language. However, their lack of mutual intelligibility means they are sometimes considered separate languages in a family. Investigation of the historical relationships among the varieties of Chinese is ongoing. Currently, most classifications posit 7 to 13 main regional groups based on phonetic developments from Middle Chinese, of which the most spoken by far is Mandarin (with about 800 million speakers, or 66%), followed by Min (75 million, e.g. Southern Min), Wu (74 million, e.g. Shangh ...
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Japanese Language
is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu, Austroasiatic, Koreanic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), there was a massive influx of Sino-Japanese vocabulary into the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive grammatical changes and the first appearance of European loanwords. The basis of the standard dialect moved f ...
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Korean Language
Korean ( South Korean: , ''hangugeo''; North Korean: , ''chosŏnmal'') is the native language for about 80 million people, mostly of Korean descent. It is the official and national language of both North Korea and South Korea (geographically Korea), but over the past years of political division, the two Koreas have developed some noticeable vocabulary differences. Beyond Korea, the language is recognised as a minority language in parts of China, namely Jilin Province, and specifically Yanbian Prefecture and Changbai County. It is also spoken by Sakhalin Koreans in parts of Sakhalin, the Russian island just north of Japan, and by the in parts of Central Asia. The language has a few extinct relatives which—along with the Jeju language (Jejuan) of Jeju Island and Korean itself—form the compact Koreanic language family. Even so, Jejuan and Korean are not mutually intelligible with each other. The linguistic homeland of Korean is suggested to be somewhere in ...
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Nanhai (other)
Nanhai () may refer to: *''Nanhai'', the Chinese name for the South China Sea, one of the Four Seas *Nanhai Commandery, the former Chinese administration over Liangguang *''Nanhai'', the Chinese name for the South China Sea Islands *The '' Nanhai I'', a Chinese wreck from the Southern Song dynasty raised in 2007 * Nanhai, a lake in the Zhongnanhai complex in Beijing *Nanhai Academy, a collection of cultural and educational facilities located on Nanhai Road in Taipei, Taiwan * Nanhai District, Foshan, Guangdong * Nanhai, Hubei ( zh), town in Songzi, Hubei * Nanhai Township ( zh), subdivision of Pingtan County, Fujian *Nanhai Subdistrict, Maoming ( zh), in Maogang District, Maoming, Guangdong *Nanhai Subdistrict, Zhumadian ( zh), in Yicheng District, Zhumadian, Henan See also *South Sea (other) *Nankai (other) *Donghai (other) ("East Sea") *Beihai (other) Beihai ("North Sea") may refer to the following places in the People's Republic of China: * B ...
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Nankai (other)
Nankai () is a term in Chinese and Japanese. It may refer to: * Nankai (), a series of schools in China * Nankai District (), Tianjin, China * Nankai Electric Railway (), a railway company in Japan * Nankai Club and Nankai Hawks, (), former names of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, a professional Japanese baseball team * Nankai Broadcasting (), a broadcasting company in Japan * Nankai Trough (), a submarine trough south of Japan * Nankai megathrust earthquakes (), a series of earthquakes that occur in and around the Nankai trough See also * Nankaidō is a Japanese geographical term. It means both an ancient division of the country and the main road running through it. The road connected provincial capitals in this region. It was part of the Gokishichidō system. The ''Nankaidō'' encompass ...