And yet, once the news went public, there was an odd twist. When the Yellow Rain dried, it became yellow dust. Some of that dust was pollen, but pollen that seemed to have been stripped of proteins. This revelation led scientists down an entirely different road. They knew some low-flying things that took pollen, digested it, stripping it of its proteins, and then let it drop.
Mandarin is part of the Chinese family of languages, which in turn is part of the Sino-Tibetan language group. All Chinese languages are tonal, which means that the way words are pronounced varies their meanings. Mandarin has âfour tones. Other Chinese languages have up to 10 distinct tones.
Standard Chinese (Putonghua/Guoyu/Huayu) is a standardized form of spoken Chinese based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin. It is the official language of China and Taiwan, as well as one of four official languages of Singapore.It is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.he Dungan language, considered by many a dialect of Mandarin, is nowadays written in Cyrillic, and was previously written in the Arabic script. The Dungan people are primarily Muslim and live mainly in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia; some of the related Hui people also speak the language and live mainly in China.