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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 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 ...
The linguistic maps below are derived from the Digital Language Atlas of China, [2] which is derived from the Language Atlas of China, [3] the first atlas to comprehensively catalog and chart the distribution of Chinese dialects. [4]
The extensive 1987 Language Atlas of China groups Chinese local varieties into the following units: [7] Supergroup (大区 dàqū ), of which there are but two: Mandarin and Min Group (区 qū ), corresponding to the varieties of Chinese of the ISO standard
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.
In Chinese dialectology, Beijing Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 北京官话; traditional Chinese: 北京官話; pinyin: Běijīng Guānhuà) refers to a major branch of Mandarin Chinese recognized by the Language Atlas of China, encompassing a number of dialects spoken in areas of Beijing, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, and Tianjin, [1] the most important of which is the Beijing dialect ...
The first edition of the Language Atlas of China puts it into its own subgroup under Hakka known as the Huizhou subgroup (惠州片; Huìzhōu piàn). [4] In the second edition, it is still classified as a dialect of Hakka, but it is placed under the Mei–Hui cluster ( 梅惠小片 ; Méi-Huì xiǎopiàn ) of the Yue–Tai subgroup ( 粤台片 ...
The individual dictionaries cover dialects spread across the dialect groups identified in the Language Atlas of China: Mandarin. Northeastern Mandarin: Harbin dialect; Ji–Lu Mandarin: Jinan dialect; Jiao–Liao Mandarin: Muping dialect; Central Plains Mandarin: Luoyang dialect, Wanrong dialect, Xi'an dialect, Xining dialect, Xuzhou dialect