The Tiantai dialect, also known as Tiantaihua (simplified Chinese: 天台话; traditional Chinese: 天台話; pinyin: Tiāntāihuà; Tiantai dialect pronunciation: [tʰi...

Tiantai County (Tai-chow dialect: T'in-t'e yön; simplified Chinese: 天台县; traditional Chinese: 天台縣; pinyin: PRC Standard Mandarin: Tiāntāi Xiàn, ROC Standard...

The following is a list of Sinitic languages and their dialects. For a traditional dialectological overview, see also varieties of Chinese. Proportions...

representative dialect. Taizhou dialect Linhai dialect Sanmen dialect Tiantai dialect Xianju dialect Huangyan dialect (黃巖話/黄岩话 [wɔ̤ɲjɛ̤̃wa̤]) Jiaojiang dialect Wenling...

The Nanjing dialect (simplified Chinese: 南京话; traditional Chinese: 南京話; pinyin: Nánjīnghuà), also known as Nankinese, Nankingese, Nanjingese, Nanjingnese...

Hokkien dialects Dongshan dialect (東山腔; Tang-soaⁿ khioⁿ) Yunxiao dialect (雲霄腔; Ûn-sio khioⁿ) Zhangpu dialect (漳浦腔; Chiuⁿ-phó͘ khioⁿ) Zhao'an dialect (詔安腔;...

Tiantai Mountain (also Tí Taî in the local language) is a mountain in Tiantai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Its highest peak, Huading, reaches...

and the Lower Yangtze, are not mutually intelligible with the Beijing dialect (or are only partially intelligible). Nevertheless, Mandarin as a group...

Beijing dialect (simplified Chinese: 北京话; traditional Chinese: 北京話; pinyin: Běijīnghuà), also known as Pekingese and Beijingese, is the prestige dialect of...

(Canton), Wuzhou (Ngchow), Hong Kong and Macau, which is the prestige dialect of the group. Taishanese, from the coastal area of Jiangmen (Kongmoon)...

three dialects: Northern Dialect, including dialects spoken in Wenzhou, Ouhai, Yongqiong, Yongjia. Southern Dialect, including Rui'an dialect, Wencheng...

dialect Dabu dialect Fengshun dialect Hailu dialect Sixian dialect Raoping dialect Zhaoan dialect Changting dialect Ethnologue reports the dialects of...

largely conurbated. Taizhou's name is believed to derive from nearby Mount Tiantai. Five thousand years ago, the ancestors of the modern inhabitants began...

other dialects; the Chenghai dialect (similar to urban Chaozhou dialect) is perceived as "soft", "cute", and "high-pitched"; the Teoyeo dialect is perceived...

The Shanghainese language, also known as the Shanghai dialect, or Hu language, is a variety of Wu Chinese spoken in the central districts of the city...

alternatively romanized in Cantonese as Toishanese or Toisanese, in local dialect as Hoisanese or Hoisanwa, is a Yue Chinese language native to Taishan,...

Fujian. Amoy Hokkien is the prestige dialect of Hokkien in Fujian, while a majority of Taiwanese speak a dialect called Taiwanese Hokkien or simply Taiwanese...

Mandarin, formerly known as Beifang Mandarin "Northern Mandarin", is a dialect of Mandarin Chinese spoken in the Chinese provinces of Hebei (冀, Jì) and...

eastern Guangdong. Standard Chinese takes its phonology from the Beijing dialect, with vocabulary from the Mandarin group and grammar based on literature...

Mandarin (Chinese: 上江官话; pinyin: Shàngjiāng Guānhuà), is a Mandarin Chinese dialect spoken in much of Southwestern China, including in Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing...

The Amoy dialect or Xiamen dialect (Chinese: 廈門話; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ē-mn̂g-ōe; pinyin: Xiàménhuà), also known as Amoyese, Amoynese, Amoy Hokkien, Xiamenese...

Quanzhou dialect has an intelligibility of 87.5% with the Amoy dialect and 79.7% with the urban Zhangzhou dialect. Before the 19th century, the dialect of Quanzhou...

linguistic definition Fuzhou is a language and not a dialect (conferring the variety a 'dialect' status is more socio-politically motivated than linguistic)...

at least some tones. The Changsha dialect is usually taken as representative of New Xiang, while Shuangfeng dialect represents Old Xiang. Norman describes...

one of the most important Chinese dialects in Chinese American communities, is considered a representative dialect. The name "Sze Yup" or "Seiyap" (Chinese:...

Chengdu-Chongqing dialect or Cheng–Yu (Chinese: 成渝; pinyin: Chéng-Yú; Sichuanese Pinyin: Cen2yu2, locally [tsʰən˨˩y˨˩]) is the most widely used branch...

Changchun dialect is a Mandarin Chinese variety spoken by people in and around the city of Changchun in Jilin Province, China. The Changchun dialect is a member...

Kuo-ch'ing Ssu, "Monastery of National Purity") is a Buddhist temple on Mount Tiantai, in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Originally built in 598 CE during...

The Weitou dialect or Wai Tau dialect (Jyutping: wai4 tau4 waa2; lit. 'walled (village) language') is a dialect of Yue Chinese. It forms part of the Guan–Bao...

Wenchang dialect being the prestige dialect, and often used as a reference. Below is a table for the consonants of Hainanese across the dialects of Wenchang...