| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Traditional Chinese dictionaries list only single characters, giving the false impression that Chinese varieties are 'monosyllabic' (i.e. words consist of one syllable); furthermore, the notion of a 'word' was not widely employed in Chinese linguistics until the twentieth century, and English 'word' is not easily translatable.[9] In fact, the majority of e.g. Mandarin words are polysyllabic,[10] a
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