• The Beijing dialect (simplified Chinese: 北京话; traditional Chinese: 北京話; pinyin: Běijīnghuà), also known as Pekingese and Beijingese, is the prestige dialect...
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    language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China and Taiwan. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis...
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    United Nations, Singapore, and Taiwan. It is largely based on the Beijing dialect. Standard Chinese is a pluricentric language with local standards in...
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  • have no initial consonant, and are traditionally pronounced [ɚ] in Beijing dialect and in conservative varieties. In the recent decades, the vowel in...
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  • of Beijing, its dialect sounds very different from the Beijing dialect, which is the basis for Standard Chinese. The tones of the Tianjin dialect correspond...
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    number of dialects spoken in areas of Beijing, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, and Tianjin, the most important of which is the Beijing dialect, which provides...
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    that it had already selected. Wade–Giles romanization is based on the Beijing dialect, a pronunciation standard since the 1850s. The use of Nanking syllabary...
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    languages of the United Nations. Standard Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin and was first officially adopted in the 1930s. The language...
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    to eastern Guangdong. Standard Chinese takes its phonology from the Beijing dialect, with vocabulary from the Mandarin group and grammar based on literature...
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  • both Beijing and Nanjing pronunciations. The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal offered that romanizing for both Nanjing and Beijing dialects was...
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    is numerically second to the Taishanese dialect of Yue. By law, Standard Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, is taught nearly universally...
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    Mandarin dialects. The southern variant spoken around Nanjing was prevalent in the late Ming and early Qing eras, but a form based on the Beijing dialect became...
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    areas of Beijing Municipality have their own dialects akin to those of Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing Municipality.[citation needed] Beijing or Peking...
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    Chinese languages such as Mandarin, which includes Beijing dialect and its cousin variants. The Beijing dialect is largely the basis of Standard Chinese (or...
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  • the Beijing dialect during the late Qing. Baihua (白话; 'plain speech') was used by writers across China regardless of their local spoken dialect. Writers...
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    adoption of the system was also hindered by its narrow calibration to the Beijing dialect, during a period when China lacked the strong central government needed...
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    Chengdu dialect of Sichuanese. Four Sichuanese finals do not exist in Beijing: [ɛ], [iai], [uɛ], and [yo]. On the other hand, three Beijing finals do...
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    the late 19th century were based on the Nanjing dialect, but Wade–Giles was based on the Beijing dialect and was the system of transcription familiar in...
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  • A dialect is a variety of language spoken by a particular group of people. It can also refer to a language subordinate in status to a dominant language...
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  • rugger and footer Erhua (儿化), rhotacization of spoken syllables in Beijing dialect of Mandarin Chinese with the -er suffix (儿) Erdős–Rényi model, a model...
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    Jilu Mandarin (redirect from Hopei dialect)
    Although these areas are near Beijing, Ji–Lu has a different accent and many lexical differences from the Beijing dialect, which is the basis for Standard...
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  • The phonology of Standard Chinese has historically derived from the Beijing dialect of Mandarin. However, pronunciation varies widely among speakers, who...
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    is "Tuye Er" (兔爺兒, "Rabbit God (as a) Youth"). Based on the correct Beijing dialect, it should be "Tu'er Ye" (兔兒爺). In his traditional iconography, he...
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    中国语言地图集(第2版):汉语方言卷 [Language Atlas of China (2nd edition): Chinese dialect volume], Beijing: The Commercial Press, pp. 3, 125, ISBN 978-7-100-07054-6. "Home"...
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    initial in Beijing: Jí–Shěn (吉沈) in the east, including Jilin dialect and Shenyang dialect, has a zero initial in these words, as in Beijing. Hā–Fù (哈阜)...
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    3% Mongol. Varieties of Chinese spoken include Jilu Mandarin, the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, and Jin Chinese. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring...
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  • government decided to designate a national language. The Beijing dialect of Mandarin and Guangzhou dialect of Cantonese were each proposed as the basis for a...
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    Lower Yangtze Mandarin. In the 19th century the base shifted to the Beijing dialect. Lower Yangtze Mandarin is spoken in central Anhui, eastern Hubei,...
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  • later. Gabelentz criticized the Beijing dialect which dominated the linguistic scene in China. A more suitable Chinese dialect in Gabelentz's view for science...
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    as Beijing and Nanjing has not changed for quite some time while in Mandarin Chinese (although the prestige dialect shifted from Nanjing dialect to Beijing...
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