Some of my neighbours are illiterate in their native Sinitic topolect, as the writing is not alphabetic. It is Cantonese.
Source: tatoeba (10680428)
Sinitic
//saɪˈnɪtɪk//
Synonyms for "sinitic" (5 found)
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18 translations across 12 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- չին-տիբեթական adj (relating to the group of Chinese languages)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 漢藏語的 /汉藏语的 adj (relating to the group of Chinese languages)
- 漢語的 /汉语的 adj (relating to the group of Chinese languages)
Dutch
1 entries- Sinitisch adj (relating to the group of Chinese languages)
Finnish
1 entries- sinotiibetiläinen adj (relating to the group of Chinese languages)
French
2 entries- chinois adj (relating to the group of Chinese languages)
- sinitique adj (relating to the group of Chinese languages)
German
2 entries- chinesisch adj (relating to the group of Chinese languages)
- sinitisch adj (relating to the group of Chinese languages)
Japanese
2 entries- シナ・チベットの adj (relating to the group of Chinese languages)
- シナ語派 adj (relating to the group of Chinese languages)
Latin
1 entries- Sinicus adj (relating to the group of Chinese languages)
Portuguese
1 entries- sinítico adj (relating to the group of Chinese languages)
Russian
2 entries- кита́йский adj (relating to the group of Chinese languages)
- сино-тибе́тский adj (relating to the group of Chinese languages)
Spanish
1 entries- sinítico adj (relating to the group of Chinese languages)
Vietnamese
2 entries- Hán adj (relating to the group of Chinese languages)
- Hán - Tạng adj (relating to the group of Chinese languages)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
My ancestral Sinitic topolect has a long history of being written in the Latin alphabet. This writing is quite phonemic. It is the Hokkien language.
Source: tatoeba (10680431)
Read the dissertation "Writing Taiwanese: The Pe̍h-ōe-jī Romanization and Identity Construction in Taiwan," about the Hokkien Sinitic topolect.
Source: tatoeba (10681526)
Read the article "The History of Peh-oe-ji," by Henning Klöter, about the history of the writing system of the Hokkien Sinitic topolect.
Source: tatoeba (10681539)
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