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  ChinesePinyinWriting

Sigma KEE - ChinesePinyinWriting
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Chinese pinyin writing
A phonetic representation that adds diacritics to latin characters to express tones.
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Instancescontent bearing physicalAny 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.
 human languageThe 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.
 linguistic expressionThis 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.
 written human languageThe 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.
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