• The Shuangfeng dialect (simplified Chinese: 双峰话; traditional Chinese: 雙峰話; pinyin: Shuāngfēnghuà) is a dialect of Xiang Chinese, spoken in Shuangfeng County...
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    Pu–Xian Min (Hinghwa Romanized: Pó-sing-gṳ̂; traditional Chinese: 莆仙話; simplified Chinese: 莆仙话; pinyin: Púxiānhuà), also known as Putian–Xianyou Min, Puxian...
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    decline in the use of Min Chinese. Communities speaking Eastern Min, Pu-Xian Min, Haklau Min, Leizhou Min, and Hainanese can also be found in parts of...
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  • Mandarin Ōuzhōu hòutóu de gǒu. The Northern Wu languages exhibit interesting behaviour regarding Qieyun Middle Chinese shan (山) and xian (咸) rimes (ie. Wugniu...
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    Yiyang Yueyang Changsha Yongzhou Quanzhou Jishou Chenxi Hengyang Shaoyang Shuangfeng Zixing Xiang and other subgroups identified by Bao & Chen Pervasive influence...
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    Shanghainese. See Shuangfeng dialect for details. Mao Zedong was a speaker of Old Xiang with his native Shaoshan dialect. [citation needed] The Shuangfeng dialect...
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  • ISBN 978-0-8248-3000-7. Hsueh, F.S. (1975), Phonology of Old Mandarin, Mouton De Gruyter, ISBN 978-90-279-3391-1. Kaske, Elisabeth (2008), The Politics of...
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  • Xiu-Yi [zh] Qi-De [zh] Yanzhou [zh] Jing-Zhan [zh] Gan Chang–Du Nanchang Yi–Liu Ying–Yi Da–Tong Xiang Changyi Changsha Loushao Shuangfeng Xiangxiang Wugang...
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  • WAVY DASH, simplified Chinese: 浪线; traditional Chinese: 浪線; pinyin: làng xiàn). In Japanese, the wavy dash is used as an emphatic form of the katakana-hiragana...
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    language... — Alessandro Valignano, Historia del Principio y Progresso de la Compañia de Jesus en las Indias Orientales (1542–1564) During the 17th century...
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  • Xiu-Yi [zh] Qi-De [zh] Yanzhou [zh] Jing-Zhan [zh] Gan Chang–Du Nanchang Yi–Liu Ying–Yi Da–Tong Xiang Changyi Changsha Loushao Shuangfeng Xiangxiang Wugang...
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    language... — Alessandro Valignano, Historia del principio y progresso de la Compañía de Jesús en las Indias Orientales, I:28 (1542–1564) Until the mid-20th...
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    Ji–Lu Mandarin group. The main differences between the Beijing ..." Cahiers de linguistique: Asie orientale - Volume 37, Issues 1-2 2008 -- Page 32 "Therefore...
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  • Qingdao dialect, different from Zhai in Putonghua) "Biao (彪)/ Chao (嘲)/ Ban Xian (半仙)/ Yu (愚), stupid Nearly all Qingdao natives can understand Mandarin,...
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    stative verbs with a voiced initial: *kens (見 jiàn) 'to see' and *ɡens (現 xiàn) 'to appear' *kraw (交 jiāo) 'to mix' and *ɡraw (殽 yáo) 'mixed, confused'...
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  • example, take the sentence "You walk first": 你(nǐ) 走(zǒu) 先(xiān)。 (Singaporean Mandarin) 你(nǐ) 先(xiān) 走(zǒu)。 (Standard Mandarin) 你(nei) 走(jau) 先(sin)。 (Cantonese)...
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  • be used to mark an initial a, e, or o: Xi'an (two syllables: [ɕi.an]) vs. xian (one syllable: [ɕi̯ɛn]). In addition, y and w are added to fully vocalic...
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    Kin 2021, p. XI. Hannas 1997, p. 73. DeFrancis 1977, pp. 23–24. Kornicki 2018, p. 63. Handel 2019, pp. 145, 150. DeFrancis 1977, p. 19. Coulmas 1991, pp...
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    present in Chinese, syllable endings are indistinguishable, i.e. xi'an and xian. Xiao'erjing was much simpler than Chinese characters for representing Chinese...
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  • day 電線桿上綁雞毛——好大的撣(膽)子 / 电线杆上绑鸡毛——好大的掸(胆)子 pinyin: diàn xiàn gǎn shàng bǎng jī máo — hǎo dà de dǎn (dǎn) zi translation: Tying chicken feathers on power...
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  • Jerry (1988). Chinese. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-29653-3. DeFrancis, John (1989). "Chinese". Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing...
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    Chinese language (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Kuo (2005). Baxter (1992), pp. 7–8. DeFrancis (1984), pp. 55–57. Thomason (1988), pp. 27–28. Campbell (2008). DeFrancis (1984), p. 57. Mair (1991), p...
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