21 Facts About Manchu language

Manchu language enjoys high historical value for historians of China, especially for the Qing dynasty.

Manchu began as a primary language of the Qing dynasty Imperial court, but as Manchu officials became increasingly sinicized, many started losing the language.

Later on, some Imperial records in Manchu language continued to be produced until the last years of the dynasty.

Large number of Manchu language documents remain in the archives, important for the study of Qing-era China.

Manchu language was born to a father who was a naval officer for the Qing, and his grandfather was an official of the Ming dynasty, before rebels murdered him.

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Manchu language translated the Hundred Family Names and Thousand Character Classic into Manchu and spent 25 years on the Manchu language.

The Han Chinese Hanlin graduate Qi Yunshi knew the Manchu language and wrote a book in Chinese on the frontier regions of China by translating and using the Grand Secretariat's archives Manchu-language sources.

In 1930, the German sinologist Erich Hauer argued forcibly that knowing Manchu language allows the scholar to render Manchu language personal and place names that have been "horribly mutilated" by their Chinese transliterations and to know the meanings of the names.

Manchu language goes on that the Manchu translations of Chinese classics and fiction were done by experts familiar with their original meaning and with how best to express it in Manchu, such as in the Manchu translation of the Peiwen yunfu.

Manchu language is taught in certain primary schools as well as in universities.

In 2009 The Wall Street Journal reported that the Manchu language is offered in one university, one public middle school, and a few private schools.

Manchu language is still thought of as a foreign language in a Han-dominated Chinese speaking country.

Notable historical Manchu language dialects include Peking, Ningguta, Alcuka and Mukden dialects.

Manchu language uses a small number of case-marking particles that are similar to those found in Korean, but There is a separate class of true postpositions.

Manchu language makes extensive use of converb structures and has an inventory of converbial suffixes to indicate the relationship between the subordinate verb and the finite verb that follows it.

Manchu language has five cases, which are marked by particles that can be written with the noun to which they apply or separately.

Manchu language has twenty consonants, shown in the table using each phoneme's representation in the IPA, followed by its romanization in italics.

Vowel harmony found in the Manchu language was traditionally described in terms of the philosophy of the I Ching.

The reasoning behind this was that the Manchu language had a kind of sound symbolism where front vowels represented feminine objects or ideas and the back vowels represented masculine objects or ideas.

Manchu language uses the Manchu script, which was derived from the traditional Mongol script, which in turn was based on the vertically written pre-Islamic Uyghur script.

Manchu language is usually romanized according to the transliteration system employed by Jerry Norman in his Comprehensive Manchu language-English Dictionary.