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Sigma KEE - ChineseTraditionalLanguage
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ChineseTraditionalLanguage
The formal Chinese script used in government and scholarly writings in China prior to the 1950's and still used in HongKong and Taiwan.
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InstancesContentBearingPhysicalAny Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition.
 EntityThe universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
 HumanLanguageThe subclass of Languages used by Humans.
 LanguageA system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
 LinguisticExpressionThis is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words.
 PhysicalAn entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
 WrittenHumanLanguageThe form of a HumanLanguage used in Writing. Not all HumanLanguages have a written form. There may be forms of a language in written form that are radically different for the same spoken form, i.e. Pinyin and written Chinese.
Belongs to Class Entity


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