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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 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 ]
The individual dictionaries cover dialects spread across the dialect groups identified in the Language Atlas of China: [1] [2] [3] 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 ...
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 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 ...
A Mandarin Chinese and Miao mixed language Maojia: 猫家话: 貓家話: A Qo-Xiong Miao and Chinese dialects mixed language Shaozhou Tuhua: 韶州土话: 韶州土話: 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 ...
Cao Zhiyun (Chinese: 曹志耘; pinyin: Cáo Zhìyún), born in Jinhua, Zhejiang in 1961 is a Chinese linguist and dialectologist who is a professor at Beijing Language and Culture University. Career [ edit ]