Wikidata:Lexicographical data/Documentation/Languages/cmn

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Mandarin

language

Subclass of	Chinese
Short name	паўночнакітайская
Located in the administrative territorial entity	Hong Kong, Macau
Replaces	Middle Chinese
Linguistic typology	subject–verb–object, isolating language
Writing system	sinograms
Ethnologue language status	1 National
Related category	Category:Mandarin pronunciation
Stack Exchange tag	https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/mandarin

The Mandarin Chinese lexicographic guideline (Q9192) is a community guideline to build a consistent dictionary relative to Chinese Mandarin language on Wikidata lexeme.

This draft is first inspired by the Japanese guideline but must be adapted to Chinese language and Wikidata usages.

Context

Language spoken in People's Republic of China (Q148), Taiwan (Q865), Singapore (Q334).

• Mandarin
  • Chinese
    • Sino-Tibetan
      • Sino-Austronesian
        • human language ^(@)→
      • Sino-Tibetan-Indo-European
        • human language ^(@)→
      • Dené–Caucasian
        • ^→(#) languoid
          • abstract entity
            • entity ⊸
      • Asian languages
        • ^→(@) human language
          • language
            • languoid ^(#)→

Replaced the Middle Chinese (Q2016252) and many regional languages.

Dialects :

• Standard Mandarin (Q727694)
• Beijing Mandarin (Q2169652)
• Putonghua (Q24841726)

Writing system sinograms (Q8201), pinyin (Q42222). Alternative transcriptions can be automatically derivated from Hanyu Pinyin.

語彙範疇/Lexical category

品詞/Part of speech

Various categorizations exist, but for collaborative purpose, we first adopt the following taxonomy. Please follow accordingly. Future tools will allow splitting a target category in finer subcategory if agreed upon.

Lemma

Language code for lemmas in simplified and traditional Chinese characters

The following is proposed by User:Rdrg109:

Ideally, all lexemes in Standard Mandarin (Q727694) should have lemmas with the language codes zh-hans (for the written form in simplified Chinese characters) and zh-hant (for the written form in traditional characters). Such lexemes shouldn't use the language code zh as it is not clear whether it refers to the simplified or traditional form.

Some users have previously expressed that zh should be used when zh-hans and zh-hant are the same. However, the problem of this approach is that inexperienced users that are not aware of zh-hans and zh-hant might add zh with any of simplified and traditional characters. When that occurs, implying that zh indicates both values are the same will not be always true.

Examples

• 电脑/電腦 (L944831)
• 发烧/發燒 (L944830)

Proposed by others in Wikidata:Lexicographical data/Best practices:

• If there are multiple scripts in which a language is generally written, it is desirable for the lemma to contain a representation for each script.
  • Where a correspondence in representation exists between multiple related scripts, repeating that correspondence may not be necessary.
    • For those Mandarin lexemes which have not been affected by character simplification, a single lemma with code 'zh' suffices.

Lexical Masks

See Wikidata:Lexical Masks.

• E
• E

Tools

• https://ordia.toolforge.org/language/Q9192

See also

• How we imported the Etymological lexicon of modern Breton from Wikisource into Wikidata lexicographical data
• Wikidata:Wikidata Lexeme Forms/Mandarin