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Speech By: Leah Schuldt What do you think when you hear Chinese? The United State’s language are very different the china’s. Both say things different when they speak. The United States and china have a writing system and only the United States have an alphabet. This paper will talk about the different between the two. How many letters do you think is in the Chinese alphabet? Well there is about 37 letters. However they do not say that they have an alphabet it is just a bunch of symbols. There is a system called “Pinyin” where you can represent the sounds of Chinese using Roman (English) alphabet. Writers spent years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. Did you know the original set of 30 signs, known as the Semitic alphabet was used in the ancient Phoenicia inning around 1600 B.C. Around 1,000 B.C., the Greeks adapted a shorter version of the Semitic alphabet reassigning certain symbols to represent vowel sounds. Over the past 1,000 years the English alphabet has lost a few special letters. Also drawn fresh distinctions between others. The United States has spaces in between their words. China separates them with punctuation marks. China and the United States have homophone, china has about 1,700 and the United States has around 8,000. Most things are similar with the china and United States alphabet. There is a ton more history in both alphabets and symbols. Remember that china does not have an official alphabet. Hopefully this paper helped you. [|glogster]