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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]
The Language Atlas of China (simplified Chinese: 中国语言地图集; traditional Chinese: 中國語言地圖集; pinyin: Zhōngguó yǔyán dìtú jí), published by Hong Kong Longman Publishing Company in two parts in 1987 and 1989, maps the distribution of both the varieties of Chinese and minority languages of China.
Language map of Hunan Province. New Xiang is orange, Old Xiang yellow, and Chen-Xu Xiang red. Non-Xiang languages are (clockwise from top right) Gan (purple), Hakka (pink along the right), Xiangnan Tuhua (dark green), Waxianghua (dark blue on the left), and Southwestern Mandarin (light blue, medium blue, light green on the left; part of dark ...
Standard Chinese, known in China as Putonghua, based on the Mandarin dialect of Beijing, [5] is the official national spoken language for the mainland and serves as a lingua franca within the Mandarin-speaking regions (and, to a lesser extent, across the other regions of mainland China).
In parts of South China, the dialect of a major city may be only marginally intelligible to its neighbors. For example, Wuzhou and Taishan are located approximately 260 km (160 mi) and 190 km (120 mi) away from Guangzhou respectively, but the Yue variety spoken in Wuzhou is more similar to the Guangzhou dialect than is Taishanese.
Dialect groups from the Language Atlas of China, by Stephen Adolphe, Li Rong, Theo Baumann, and Mei W. Lee, Longman, 1987, ISBN 978-962-359-085-3, map B8. Coastline and rivers from Natural Earth 1:10m Physical Vectors; Boundaries from Natural Earth 1:10m Cultural Vectors; Conversion to SVG using svgis; Creator
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Reverted to version as of 22:40, 18 April 2019 (UTC) RV to higher quality version that does not show Aksai Chin as China: 21:29, 1 September 2020: 869 × 964 (178 KB) RoyZuo: Reverted to version as of 14:21, 7 February 2011 (UTC) do not COM:OVERWRITE with a factually different map. the two versions are different. look carefully. 15:56, 1 ...