2, it has the characteristics of single tone and four tones, that is, it is flat in ancient times and four tones in modern times. In English, words have stress, sentences have rising and falling tones, which are also found in Chinese, but Chinese tones are not found in English.
3. It has the feature of one word with multiple tones, that is, a multi-tone word, and one word can express several completely different things or meanings. Therefore, although there are fewer Chinese characters than English words, the artistic conception of Chinese characters is more open. On the one hand, a word can have different meanings; On the other hand, the same meaning can be expressed in different words.
4. According to the language families, the languages spoken by the 56 ethnic groups in China belong to five major language families: Sino-Tibetan, Altai, Austronesian, South Asian and Indo-European. The Sino-Tibetan language family is divided into Chinese, Tibetan-Burmese, Miao-Yao and Zhuang-Dong languages.
Tibetan, Jiarong, Menba, Cangla, Barrow, Qiang, Pumi, Dulong, Jingpo, Yi, Miao, Hani, Lahu, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo, Nu, Anong, Rouruo, Tujia, Zawa and Aru belong to the Tibetan-Burmese language family.
Miao, Bunu, Mian and She languages all belong to Miao-Yao language family. Zhuang, Buyi, Dai, Dong, Shui, Mulao, Maonan, Raja, Li and gelao language all belong to the Zhuang-Dong language family. Altaic language family is divided into three major language families: Mongolian, Turkic and Manchu-Tungusic.
Extended data
The earliest writing in China can be traced back to "Oracle Bone Inscriptions" around 1200 BC (although it is a modern word). Some traces and symbols of pottery scattered on other man-made utensils can be traced back to 3000 to 4000 years ago, but they cannot form a writing system that can record a grammatically clear language, and there is no evidence that they have anything to do with later China characters.
Therefore, according to the existing records, China's writing system first appeared nearly two thousand years ago, later than Mesopotamia and Egypt (both appeared around 3000 BC, and Mesopotamia was obviously a little earlier than Egypt).
First, Chinese characters seem to be full-fledged overnight and have not experienced a long-term gradual evolution process. In southwest Asia, the evolution of the production of these characters is well recorded;
Second, Chinese characters have been proved to be produced immediately after copper smelting, almost at the same time as the appearance of carriages, while archaeologists and experts in the history of science have confirmed that copper smelting and carriages originated in West Asia;
Thirdly, the characteristics of China's writing system (basically, morpheme syllables have semantic quantifiers and auditory components, as well as pictographic and ideographic components, etc. );
Fourthly, many scholars have independently found that some word groups of the earliest Chinese characters are visually similar to the corresponding West Asian word groups (China's twenty-two heavenly stems and earthly branches for counting and calendar are equivalent to the twenty-two letters of Phoenicians and Ugandans who presented various variants before it.
And as far as their pronunciations are concerned, which were known more than 3,000 years ago, they seem to have the same phonetic correspondence (this does not necessarily require a direct connection between the Levant region and China, but some indirect communication, or the stimulus originated somewhere between the East and the West and spread in two directions at the same time);
5. A large number of single Chinese characters are very similar to West Asian Chinese characters in shape, meaning and sometimes even pronunciation;
6. In the first few hundred years, highly developed Chinese characters only served one highly specialized purpose (records of divination in dynasties), and in the next few hundred years, they were used for another highly specialized purpose (inscriptions on the bronze Zhong Ding of nobles), which meant that Chinese characters were monopolized by a handful of nobles or clergy and their successors, who carefully guarded their skills in writing Chinese characters.
None of the above single evidences can completely question the local origin of Chinese characters, but together, these evidences are enough to show that the possibility of external influence cannot be easily ruled out.
Baidu Encyclopedia-China Language and Characters