Welcome to Sinoglot!

China means not just lots of languages but language families: Sinitic, Tibeto-Burman, Tungusic… If you expand the scope into history, scripts, bilingualism, language acquisition and so on, it’s enough to induce vertigo.

Sinoglot is never going to cover it all, but we give you a bit in every dimension, eclectically. This is who we are:

Duncan maintains the Naxi Script Resource Centre, and works as a translator for various publishers in the UK.

Kellen runs Annals of Wu, xiǎo ér jīng and Nothing Undone. When not doing that, he’s busy being a graduate student.

Paweł is a contributor to Echoes of Manchu where he is currently leading the translation project for The Book of the Nisan Shaman.

Randy runs Yuwen and writes for Echoes of Manchu.  He runs a language school in northeast China, and is the author of Open Me, a textbook that teaches English reading.

Sima writes for Echoes of Manchu and resides in Chinese Manchuria. Little else is known about him.

Syz produces Beijing Sounds. He’s also a co-founder but woefully infrequent contributor to Echoes of Manchu.

Here you’ll find our group blog among other things, but we all started blogging independently about narrower topics. Here are our subject-specific blogs:

Mandarin
• Beijing Sounds -　audio & discussion on Beijing dialect and culture
• Yǔwén -　Mandarin acquisition by native speakers
Classical Chinese
• Nothing Undone -　literary Chinese study and discussion
Manchu
• Echoes of Manchu -　information & discussion on the Manchu language
Naxi
• The Naxi Script Resource Center -　information on Naxi writing and language
Wu
• Annals of Wu -　audio & discussion on Wu (Shanghainese) dialects
Other
• xiǎo ér jīng -　life & language among China’s Muslims