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Chinese language

language group of the Sinitic languages

8 dated entries naming Chinese language, drawn from 8 separate years between 185 CE and 1409 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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2nd century

  • 185Zhi Yao, a Kushan Buddhist monk of Yuezhi ethnicity, translates Buddhist texts into the Chinese language during the Han dynasty.source

5th century

  • 401Kumarajiva, Kuchean Buddhist monk, arrives in Chang'an and begins translating Buddhist texts into Chinese.source
  • 414Fa-Hien, Chinese Buddhist monk, returns from India and begins translating Buddhist works into Chinese.source
  • 443Gunabhadra, Indian Buddhist monk, is an invited honored guest by emperor Wen of Liu Song (Liu Song dynasty). He translates the Lankavatara Sutra from Sanskrit into the Chinese language.source
  • 494Emperor Xiao Wen Di moves the capital of Northern Wei from Datong to Luoyang. He makes Chinese the official language of his court, and orders his nobility to adopt Chinese names.source

6th century

  • 561Jnanagupta, a Buddhist monk from Gandhara (Pakistan), begins translating Buddhist texts into Chinese.source
  • 591Jnanagupta, Afghan Buddhist monk, translates the Vimalakirti Sutra into Chinese.source

15th century

  • 1409February 15 – The Galle Trilingual Inscription, with inscriptions in three languages (Chinese, Tamil and Persian) is installed by the Chinese admiral Zheng He at Galle in Sri Lanka, where he has stopped while on his way home during the second of his treasure voyages.source

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