or Ta Yu
One of China's three legendary emperors, supposed founder of the Xia dynasty.
His years of strenuous labour provided outlets to the sea through dredging and made the world suitable for human habitation. See also Shun; Yao.
Shun - In Chinese mythology, one of the three legendary emperors, along with Yao and Da Yu, of the golden age of antiquity (c. 23rd century BC), singled out by Confucius as models of integrity and virtue.
Ta Yu - (Chinese: "Yu the Great"), in Chinese mythology, the Tamer of the Flood, one of China's saviour-heroes and reputed founder of China's oldest dynasty, the Hsia. One legend among many recounts Ta Yu's extraordinary birth: a man called Kun was given charge of controlling a great deluge. To dam the water, he stole from heaven what seems to have been a piece of magic soil. Angered by the theft, the ...
Sranantonga - a creole language spoken in Suriname (formerly Dutch Guiana) in northeastern South America. Sranantonga originated as a pidgin based on English, spoken by slaves of African descent who worked on the plantations of Suriname. The pidgin was strongly influenced by the African languages native to the slaves, as well as by Portuguese, the language of the original Guianan plantation owners, who were ...
Chinese languages - The pronunciation of Modern Standard Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect, which is of the Northern, or Mandarin, type. It employs about 1,300 different syllables. There are 22 initial consonants, including stops (made with momentary, complete closure in the vocal tract), affricates (beginning as stops but ending with incomplete closure), aspirated consonants, nasals, fricatives, liquid sounds ...
The Environment - On Feb. 4-6, 2006, environment ministers attended the first International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM), which was held in Dubai under the auspices of the UN Environment Programme. The ICCM adopted a voluntary set of policies and measures, called the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, that was aimed at reducing chemical hazards to the environment and to human ...
Indo-Iranian languages - group of languages constituting the easternmost major branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Indo-Aryan (Indic) languages are spoken by some 800 million persons in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, and other areas of the Himalayan region. In addition, languages of the Indo-Aryan group are spoken by about 5,000,000 people in Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania: the ...
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