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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.
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.
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
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 ...
China; Language Status Comments ISO 639-3 Adi language: Vulnerable [1] Also spoken in: India: adi Aluo language: Definitely endangered [1] yna Amis language: Vulnerable [1] Also spoken in: Taiwan. Formosan languages. ami Amok language: Critically endangered [1] Also spoken in: Laos, Burma, Thailand: mqt Anung language: Critically endangered [1 ...
Li Rong (4 February 1920 – 31 December 2002) was a Chinese linguist known for his work on Chinese dialectology.He was director of the Institute of Linguistics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences from 1982 to 1985, [1] and editor of the Language Atlas of China and the Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects.
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 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 ]