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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.
The Language Atlas of China serves as the starting point for many efforts to further detail, map and classify Xiang dialects, including the many studies of Bao Houxing and Chen Hui. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Dialect map of Hunan Province according to Chen and Bao (2007) [ 9 ]
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
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).
A group of distinctive Chinese dialects in South China, including Yuebei Tuhua and Xiangnan Tuhua. It incorporates several Chinese dialects, as well as Yao languages. Tangwang: 唐汪话: 唐汪話: A Mandarin Chinese and Dongxiang mixed language Waxiang: 瓦乡话: 瓦鄉話: An independent Chinese language variety Wutun: 五屯话: 五屯話
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Reason: Taklamakan Desert is mostly uninhabited and should be in grey instead of yellow as if it is a Mandarin speaking area. Compare to the more rational perspective on a different topic here: File:Ethnolinguistic_map_of_China_1983.png, where the deep desert and mountain fastness is shown as uninhabited.