2017年大学英语四级翻译试题库：闽北语

2017年大学英语四级翻译试题库：闽北语

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　　闽北语

　　闽北语主要分布于福建省北部古闽之建宁道建州地区，范围将近两万平方公里，使用人口在200万左右，诞生于秦朝，属于历史最早、影响力较大的闽语之一，由古汉语发展而来，保留了古汉语中众多的语音特点和古汉语词汇、构词方法。

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　　Northern Min Chinese

　　The language of the Northern Min is mainly spoken in northern Fujian Province, in a place that was known as Jianzhou in ancient times. About 2 million speakers of the language are spread over nearly 20 thousand square kilometers. It originates from the Qin Dynasty, and is one of the earliest Min Languages developed from ancient Chinese. A variety of phonetic characteristics, Chinese vocabulary, and sentence construction have been retained to this day.

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