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The Old Chinese finals *-aw and *-u merged in Middle Chinese syllables without a palatal medial by the 4th century AD, but are still distinguished in Bai. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] Several words with Old Chinese *-ts, which developed to -j with the departing tone in Middle Chinese, produce tonal reflexes in Bai corresponding to an original stop coda.
The Yunan dialect (simplified Chinese: 郁南话; traditional Chinese: 郁南話; pinyin: Yùnánhuà, Yunan dialect IPA: uɐk55 nam21 ua21) [1] is a dialect of Goulou Yue spoken in Yunan County, Yunfu, Guangdong.
There are 756 basic glyphs based on the Liangshan dialect, plus 63 for syllables used only for words borrowed from Chinese. Yunnan did not officially adopt the Liangshan script, but developed its own Yunnan Standard Yi Script (云南规范彝文方案 Yúnnán Guīfàn Yíwén Fāng'àn) on different principles, which emphasized cross-dialect ...
In China, all of the Bi-Ka languages (Chinese: 碧卡) are considered to form a single Hani dialect cluster (Chinese: 方言 fangyan), and the speakers are officially classified as ethnic Hani (Haniyu Jianzhi 哈尼语简志 1986). Recognized dialects include Biyue 碧约 (autonym: bi31jɔ31), Kaduo 卡多, and Enu 峨努. In Yunnan, China ...
Southwestern Mandarin (Chinese: 西南官话; pinyin: Xīnán Guānhuà), also known as Upper Yangtze Mandarin (Chinese: 上江官话; pinyin: Shàngjiāng Guānhuà), is a Mandarin Chinese dialect spoken in much of Southwestern China, including in Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Guizhou, most parts of Hubei, the northwestern part of Hunan, the ...
The Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects (Chinese: 汉语方言地图集; pinyin: Hànyǔ Fāngyán Dìtú Jí), edited by Cao Zhiyun and published in 2008 in three volumes, is a dialect atlas documenting the geography of varieties of Chinese. Unlike the Language Atlas of China (1987), which aims to map the boundaries of both minority languages ...
In Yunnan, the Chinese section of this railway is known as the Yunnan-Hekou Railway and the line gave Yunnan access to the seaport at Haiphong. During the Second World War, Britain and the United States began building a railway from Yunnan to Burma but abandoned the effort due to Japanese advance.
Datapoint locations of representative dialects are from Li Yunbing (2000:237), all of which are located in Guizhou province, China. Chuanqiandian Miao. Lect 1 (1,100,000 speakers; representative dialect: Dananshan 大南山寨, Xiaoshao township 小哨苗族乡, Bijie city) The Tuhe 土河 dialect is spoken in Xishui County, Guizhou. [5]