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However, word order is flexible, and the emphatic word can be placed first in the sentence. [1]: p28 Hawaiian largely avoids subordinate clauses, [1]: p.27 and often uses a possessive construction instead. [1]: p.41 Hawaiian, unlike English, is a pro-drop language, meaning pronouns may be omitted when the meaning is clear from context.
Mao is most likely descended from the German game Mau Mau. It may have influenced the game Eleusis , which was published in Martin Gardner 's column in Scientific American in June 1959. [ 7 ] Both of these games share similar principles of inductive reasoning .
Written vernacular Chinese, also known as baihua, comprises forms of written Chinese based on the vernacular varieties of the language spoken throughout China. It is contrasted with Literary Chinese, which was the predominant written form of the language in imperial China until the early 20th century.
Bai Mudan (Chinese: 白 牡 丹; pinyin: bái mǔdān; Wade–Giles: pai 2 mu 3-tan 1; lit. 'white peony') is a type of white tea made from plucks each with one leaf shoot and two immediate young leaves (one bud two leaf ratio) of the Camellia sinensis plant. [1] Bai Mudan is sometimes preferred by white tea drinkers for its fuller flavor and ...
Chữ Nôm (𡨸喃, IPA: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ nom˧˧]) [5] is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language.It uses Chinese characters to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, with other words represented by new characters created using a variety of methods, including phono-semantic compounds. [6]
The List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese (simplified Chinese: 现代汉语通用字表; traditional Chinese: 現代漢語通用字表; pinyin: Xiàndài Hànyǔ Tōngyòngzì Biǎo) is a list of 7,000 commonly used Chinese characters in Chinese.
Ahe Lau Makani, translated as The Soft Gentle Breeze [5] or There is a Zephyr, [2] is a famous waltz composed by Queen Liliʻuokalani around 1868. Probably written at Hamohamo, the Waikīkī home of the Queen, this song appeared in "He Buke Mele O Hawaii" under the title He ʻAla Nei E Māpu Mai Nei.
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III in front of the octagonal Mau office in Vaimoso village, near Apia, 1929.(Photograph by Alfred James Tattersall). Tupua Tamasese Lealofi-o-ā'ana III (4 May 1901 – 29 December 1929) was a paramount chief of Samoa, holder of the Tupua Tamasese dynastic title and became the leader of the country's pro-independence Mau movement from early ...