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A Comparative Analysis of Consonants in Chinese and Arabic Phonetics

Author(s)

FAYROUZ ABDELSAMIE ELSAYED MOHAMED

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2019.11.010

Affiliation(s)

School of International Chinese Studies (SICS) of East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai‎, China

ABSTRACT

Arabic and Chinese are one of the most difficult languages to learn in the world. The mark of Arabic is Pinyin characters plus pinyin symbols. On the other hand, the mark of Chinese is ideographic square shaped characters; each pronunciation of a Chinese character is generally a syllable. There are great differences between Arabic and Chinese consonants, so this paper mainly discusses the similarities and differences between the two languages and their respective characteristics through the comparative analysis of Chinese and Arabic consonants.

KEYWORDS

Chinese, Arabic, pronunciation, consonant, comparison

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