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Chang–Du or Chang–Jing, sometimes called Nanchang or Nanchangese [1] (simplified Chinese: 南昌话; traditional Chinese: 南昌話; pinyin: Nánchānghuà) after its principal dialect, is one of the Gan Chinese languages. It is named after Nanchang and Duchang County, and is spoken in those areas as well as in Xinjian, Anyi, Yongxiu, De'an ...
Each map is accompanied by a blue sheet of the same size containing explanatory notes. [1] The atlas is divided into three sections: [3] A. General maps A1 Languages in China; A2 Chinese dialects in China; A3 Ethnic Minorities in China; A4 Minority languages in China; A5 Language distribution (Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region) B. Maps of ...
Nanchang has a rapid economic development and ranks 15th among the fastest growing 20 cities in the world. It is one of the cities with the most potential for development in China and the world in the future. In 2017, the city's gross regional product (GDP) was 500.319 billion yuan (US$80.03 billion), an increase of 9.0% over the previous year ...
There are several hundred languages in China.The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages, collectively known as Hanyu (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ, 'Han language'), that are spoken by 92% of the population.
extinct languages of the Fertile Crescent such as Sumerian and Elamite. extinct languages of South Asia; mainly the unclassified Harappan language; small language families and isolates of the Indian subcontinent: Burushaski, Kusunda, and Nihali. The Vedda language of Sri Lanka is likely an isolate that has mixed with Sinhala.
Unlike the Language Atlas of China (1987), which aims to map the boundaries of both minority languages and Chinese dialect groups, the new atlas is a collection of maps of various features of dialects, in the tradition of the Atlas linguistique de la France and its successors. [1] [2]
Jiāngxīhuà ("Jiangxi language") is commonly used in Chinese, but since the borders of the language do not follow the borders of the province, this name is not geographically exact. Xi ("right-river language"): an ancient name, now seldom used, arising from the fact that most Gan speakers live south of the Yangtze River , beyond the right ...
Nanchang County (Chinese: 南昌县; pinyin: Nánchāng Xiàn) is a county of Jiangxi Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Nanchang, the provincial capital. The population in 1999 was 986,031. [1]