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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.
Recent authors have suggested that Bai is an early offshoot from Chinese, a sister language to Chinese, or more distantly related (though usually still Sino-Tibetan). [16] [17] There are different tonal correspondences in the various layers. [18]
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The Jino language constitutes the two subdialects of Youle Jino and Buyuan Jinuo, [7] and they are not mutually intelligible. Buyuan Jino is spoken by 21,000 people; [8] most of the speakers are monolingual, which means they only speak Buyuan Jino. [4] There is no official written form. Most Jino people also speak one of the Tai languages or
Yiche is spoken in the following locations of Honghe County, Yunnan, China (Lan 2009:11).. Dayangjie Township 大羊街乡; Langdu Village 浪堵村, [2] Langdi Township 浪堤乡