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| | Shanghai Dialect Introduction: Background |
 | | Wu dialects have preserved the full Middle Chinese set of voiced initials that do not exist in Mandarin and Cantonese. | | | It has however been less faithful in its finals, having truncated most diphthongs and triphthongs still found in Cantonese and Mandarin into monophthongs (pure vowels), for a total of 14 pure vowels. | | | This site believes that the debate of language vs. dialect has no relevance on introducing and promoting Shanghainese as it is. |
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http://www.zanhe.com/general.html
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| | Chinese Dialects FAQ |
| | What is the definition of a language and a dialect? | | | There are tens of thousands of villages in China however, and not every single one of them has a distinct dialect. | | | However, the Sinitic languages of China (which exclude other minority languages such as Tibetan, Uyghur, Manchu, etc.) can be grouped into several large groups. |
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http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/faq.htm
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| | Wu Family History |
| | Ji-Zhe: Sou-Mon's 4th son, didn't want to be king and left the capital to live in Yenling. | | | I-Wei died and the people of Wu wanted Ji-Zhe to succeed, but Ji-Zhe escaped so they had to name I-Wei's son Liao as successor. | | | Chou-Chan: Su-Ta's oldest son, was named by Chou Wu-Wang as the succesor King Wu. |
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http://www.wujiaquan.com/wufam.htm
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| | Shanghainese |
| | Also, Shanghainese people use their own dialect as a secret language when foreigners and people from other parts of China are around, and I see no reason why their faith in the impenetrability of their dialect shouldn’t be shaken! | | | But it seems to be representative of a sense of inferiority that surrounds the dialect. | | | I threw myself into it from the first day, and started putting together word lists. |
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http://www.earnshaw.com/past_version/earnshaw9602/sanghe.htm
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| | Created by Congress in 1994 and incorporated in 1996, RFA currently broadcasts in Burmese, Cantonese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, the Wu dialect, Vietnamese, Tibetan (Uke, Amdo, and Kham), and Uyghur. |
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http://techweb.rfa.org/pipermail/rfanews/2004-January.txt
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| | History of chinese dialects - China History Forum, online chinese history forum |
| | China never had a unified "Old Han spoken language" before and after the Qin (until 20th century). | | | Real Knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" - Confucius | | | To call the Sinitic languages "dialects" is a huge misnomer only popularized in the 20th century. |
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http://www.chinahistoryforum.com/index.php?showtopic=835
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| | Vita for R. VanNess Simmons |
| | "A Note on the Articulation of the -er Suffix in the Hangzhou Dialect." Fangyan 1989: 180-81. | | | "Notes on Richard VanNess Simmons: Chinese Dialect Classification." In Oriens Extremus 42.1, 183-190. | | | "Mandarin Dialect Islands in Jintarn County, Jiangsu, China." Given at the 37th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, University of Lund, Sweden, October 1-3, 2004. |
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http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~rsimmon/VitaRVS.htm
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| | Shanghainese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There shall be only one of the vocalic letters (A,E,I,O,U) in one monosyllable,as there are no true diphthongal syllables in Shanghai dialect. | | | Wu has 87 million speakers as of 1991, and is the second most spoken form of Chinese after Mandarin (which has some 800 million speakers). | | | Shanghainese is a register language, with only two live tonal constrasts (high and low). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_dialect
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| | [Wikipedia-l] Individual Wikipedias for different Sinitic vernaculars (Cantonese debate) - update |
| | But I > have never seen any books written in the Wu dialect in my entire life, > and I have only heard of one book that was written in Wu in the 1930s, > and apparently it received very limited attention. | | | The idea of a vernacular Wu encyclopedia is not very absurd so long as there are people willing to give the project a try. | | | I want to remind you that written vernacular Chinese in *any* dialect, including Mandarin Baihua, is a relatively recent development; the "thousands years of cultural integration" mean little and can be quite frankly compared to the "cultural intergration" that is western civilization. |
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http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-January/037073.html
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| | Christian Art Order Entry |
| | A quote from the Bible by St. Peter | | | Neither Sword nor Fire will stop me from loving Jesus | | | Sayfo Wu Nuro Lo Forshin Li Men Hub Yeshu' |
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http://cavemanart.com/shopchris/Christian_Art_Order_Entry.html
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| | Cantonese_(linguistics) |
| | Standard written Chinese is, in essence, written Standard Mandarin. | | | But Cantonese courses can be found at some US universities. | | | "Yuè (Guangdong) dialect") is one of the major dialect groups or languages of the Chinese language or language family. |
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http://www.apawn.com/search.php?title=Cantonese_(linguistics)
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| | Chinese Dialects Introduction |
| | I have a huge collection and am willing to help you do searches. | | | Also added some Vietnamese placename data to the Vietnamese dialect page. | | | Fixed Vietnamese tones according to message from Dylan Sung who has posted new information regarding Vietnamese tone contours. |
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http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/journal.htm
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| | Ting #14 |
| | She claims that the document consists of three levels of language: the colloquial, the literary vernacular, and the classical. | | | The classifier has been preserved in the most conservative southern dialects only. | | | He focuses on the correlation of the lexical and grammatical aspects of comparative constructions with social variables, including age, sex, education, and place of origin. |
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http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7057/~jcl2/Ting.htm
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| | Historically, many of the people who promoted Chinese nationalism were from southern China and did not natively speak the national standard language. | | | When forced to conceptualize these variations in terms of language and dialect common in the West, most Chinese do not think of these variations as separate languages because they share a common written standard and literary and cultural tradition, and perhaps just as importantly, is the basis for a single political identity. | | | However, because two people are speaking dialects within the same category does not mean that they can necessarily completely understand each other. |
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http://en-cyclopedia.com/wiki/Chinese_spoken_language
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| | Shanghai Dialect FAQ |
| | The original plan for the site had been to transcribe everything into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) so that visitors do not have to learn a new romanization system. | | | By nature of its polysyllabic phonology, tones for syllables beyond the first in a Shanghainese word do not need to be marked, while they remain required for other Chinese dialects in order to orthographically distinguish words that are phonemically distinguished. | | | This site, however, has no intention to suggest that Shanghainese should serve as the standard for all Wu dialects; on the contrary, we strongly believe in preserving diversity for all languages and dialects, regardless of the number of speakers or their economic strength. |
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http://www.zanhe.com/faq.html
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| | habazaleidhabramez |
| | It is spoken and written by the people of the Island as a kind of "living Latin", that is, a language which is ancestral to the contemporary languages and serves as a communications bridge between speakers of local dialects. | | | My constructed language, called Early Lahabic or Lahabic, is influenced by Latin, Greek, Russian, and Hawaiian in grammatical forms. |
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http://www.habazaleidhabramez.homestead.com
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| | M. Chan's C785: Modern Chin. Dialects (Sp 94) |
| | Each student is also expected to submit: (1) a short reaction paper (circa 5 double-spaced typed pages), and (2) an oral and written version of a squib (circa 5 double-spaced pages) on a topic or problem relevant to the course. | | | This course investigates the phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax of several major Chinese dialects from a cross-dialectal, comparative approach. | | | Select topics pertaining to the structure of the Chinese language will be covered in the course. |
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http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9/c785-s94.htm
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| | Workshop 2003 - Dialectal Chinese Speech Recognition |
| | There are eight major dialectal regions in addition to Mandarin (Northern China) in China, including Wu (Southern Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai), Yue (Guangdong, Hong Kong, Nanning Guangxi), Min (Fujian, Shantou Guangdong, Haikou Hainan, Taipei Taiwan), Hakka (Meixian Guangdong, Hsin-chu Taiwan), Xiang (Hunan), Gan (Jiangxi), Hui (Anhui), and Jin (Shanxi). | | | Although the Chinese dialects share a written language and standard Chinese (Putonghua) is widely spoken in most regions, speech is still strongly influenced by the native dialects. | | | For practical reasons during the summer, we will focus on one specific dialect, for example the Wu dialect or the Chuan dialect. |
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http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/ws2003/groups/speechrec/description.shtml
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| | Wu dialect - definition of Wu dialect by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | Chinese - any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system | | | Wu dialect - definition of Wu dialect by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Wu+dialect
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| | Learn Mandarin - Mandarin Reference Materials |
| | This is not just a Chinese-English dictionary, but having the Chinese text enables you to see the corresponding Chinese definition, a great enhancement to learning accurate, contemporary language. | | | It does not include those non-colloquial words that share the same Chinese characters with the official language, Mandarin Chinese. | | | This book contains twenty-nine units, each of which contains two brief dialogues, a vocabulary to the dialogues, and a supplementary word list. |
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http://www.multilingualbooks.com/chinref.html
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| | phorum - Chinese Culture Forum at Asiawind - Re: Mondlango and Protecting the Diversity of Languages |
| | Most see their purely vernacular dialect as their distinguishing mark; many will argue that Shanghainese sounds far better than Mandarin or Cantonese. | | | These people are not born speaking Mandarin; they learn Mandarin in schools because Wu is not encouraged by PRC (unlike Cantonese, there is not a single Wu-dialect TV station; nor has any developments been made into devising a more suitable script or set of characters for Wu). | | | alot of dialect or languages has been replace with mandarin. |
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http://www.asiawind.com/forums/read.php?f=2&i=2613&t=2510
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| | wu foot links - infos |
| | Wu's Feet Links - Feet Links and More | | | Loads of free and message board and chatroom. | | | You may also use the word browser links:... |
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http://www.angelfire.com/alt2/ang10/18/wu-foot-links.html
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| | Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog: There is no such thing as "Chinese" |
| | Most speak 3-4 dialects and some as many as six, which tend to be as distinct from one another than French is from English. | | | Wu, a dialect spoken in Shanghai, shares only about one-third of Mandarin's lexicon, which is about the same as French and English. | | | Thing is, only about half of China can speak it. |
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http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/archives2/002054.html
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| | Chinese Linguistics Resources |
| | Cantonese Prounciation Dictionary (S. Wong's A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced according to the Dialect of Canton)(Big 5) |
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http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/asian/Chi-linguistics.htm
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| | Expert Interviews: Are China's Nuclear Power Plants Safe? |
| | In a series of interviews with Radio Free Asia, some say China has shown it can operate nuclear plants safely, but others cite the dangers of building too many reactors too fast. | | | David Lochbaum, a nuclear safety engineer at the non-profit Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, told RFA's Wu dialect service that China's accelerated program might stretch the available number of qualified nuclear professionals too thin and leave little time to learn from the experience of earlier plants. | | | Similar problems affected the expansion of the U.S. nuclear program in the 1970s, Lochbaum said. |
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http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=8162
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| | CHINESE Meaning and Definition - Dictionary - eLook.org |
| | [noun] any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system | | | Min, Min dialect, Fukien, Fukkianese, Hokkianese, Amoy, Taiwanese |
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http://www.elook.org/dictionary/chinese.html
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| | Synonyms of wu |
| | usage: a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta |
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http://www.infoplease.com/thesaurus/wu
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| | Title page for etd-0910104-142754 |
| | If you have more questions or technical problems, please contact eThesys | | | The Research of Diminutive of Wu Huei dialect |
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http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0910104-142754
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