南海 (other)
南海(남해), meaning "South Sea" in Chinese and Japanese, Korean Korean may refer to: People and culture * Koreans, people from the Korean peninsula or of Korean descent * Korean culture * Korean language **Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Korean **Korean dialects **See also: North–South differences in t ... may refer to: * Nanhai (other), the Chinese pinyin transliteration * Nankai (other), the Japanese transliteration * Namhae (other), the Korean transliteration {{Chinese title disambiguation ...
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Chinese Language
Chinese ( or ) is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and List of ethnic groups in China, many minority ethnic groups in China, as well as by various communities of the Chinese diaspora. Approximately 1.39 billion people, or 17% of the global population, speak a variety of Chinese as their first language. Chinese languages form the Sinitic languages, Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The spoken varieties of Chinese are usually considered by native speakers to be dialects of a single language. However, their lack of mutual intelligibility means they are sometimes considered to be separate languages in a Language family, 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 Chinese, Mandarin with 66%, or around 800&nb ...
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Japanese Language
is the principal language of the Japonic languages, Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language. There have been many Classification of the Japonic languages, attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as Ainu languages, Ainu, Austronesian languages, Austronesian, Koreanic languages, Koreanic, and the now discredited Altaic languages, Altaic, but none of these proposals have gained any 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), extensive waves of Sino-Ja ...
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Korean Language
Korean is the first language, native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Koreans, Korean descent. It is the national language of both South Korea and North Korea. In the south, the language is known as () and in the north, it is known as (). Since the turn of the 21st century, aspects of Korean Wave, Korean popular culture have spread around the world through globalization and Korean Wave, cultural exports. Beyond Korea, the language is recognized as a minority language in parts of China, namely Jilin, and specifically Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Yanbian Prefecture, and Changbai Korean Autonomous County, 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 language, 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 ...
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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 ...
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Nankai (other)
Nankai () is a series of schools in China. Nankai () may also refer to: * 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 encompassed the ...