单词 | sino-xenic |
释义 | Sino-Xenicadj. Linguistics. Of or relating to a language which is unrelated to Chinese but contains numerous words and other linguistic elements borrowed from or modelled on Chinese; (also) designating such a language.Usually with reference to Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese: see Sino- comb. form1 2a, Sino-Japanese n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Sino-Tibetan > [adjective] > of Chinese > having elements of Sino-Xenic1953 1953 S. E. Martin Phonemes Anc. Chinese i. 4 Other sources of knowledge about the Chinese of this period are vast bodies of borrowed language forms known as Sino-Japanese, Sino-Korean, and Sino-Annamese (i.e., the Sino-Xenic dialects). 1959 P. L.-M. Serruys Chinese Dial. Han Time i. 7 These Sino-Xenic readings, loans made en bloc, differ from other transliterations of Chinese into foreign languages or vice versa. 1962 Monumenta Serica 21 335 This point can be illustrated by comparing the treatment of the ju-sheng..words in the north-western dialects of the T'ang and Five Dynasties era (as reflected in the Sino-Xenic transcriptions). 1990 Jrnl. Chinese Linguistics 18 48 This information, together with Sino-xenic correspondences and modern dialectal information, has provided the basis for reconstructing vowel qualities in Chinese historical phonology. 2015 J. M. Unger in P. Honeybone & J. Salmons Oxf. Handbk. Hist. Phonol. vi. 87 Literary Chinese of the Sino-Xenic sphere was comparable to Latin, Greek, Arabic, and Sanskrit in other parts of the world. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1953 |
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