[Wikipedia-l] Request for classical Chinese

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On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:12:00 +0900 (JST), abc_root
<abcd_root at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> Dear all:
> 
> I would like to request a new Wikipedia for classical Chinese or kanbun(
> 漢文/文言文) which is the standard form of Chinese for about two thousand
> years and was used throughout East Asia as the formal form of writing. Its
> importance in East Asia is like that of Latin in Europe. Now that
> Wikipedias are running or being started for many of the languages in East
> Asia, it seems that the language which is the backbone of these languages
> should also have a place.
> 
> One problem that might be encountered in writing articles for kanbun
> wikipedia is how the foreign loanwords (e.g. from English) should be
> phonetically transcribed when there is no corresponding word in kanbun
> itself. If they are transcribed using kanji (Chinese characters), there is
> the question of which language should be used to read the kanji. Here I
> suggest using an alphabet system of East Asia (e.g. Japanese kana or Korean
> hangul, or Taiwanese chu-yin) for the transcription and also note the
> original word in English (or any other language of origin or the roman
> transcription if the language is not written in roman alphabet). This
> allows kanbun users speaking different languages to know the original
> foreign word.
> 
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