[Wikipedia-l] Request for classical Chinese

[Mark Williamson]

Would you like to fill us in on what you mean by this?

Mark

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:13:08 -0600, Kiss All <kissall at gmail.com> wrote:
> You are out of your mind. Period.
> 
> 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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