• The Tiantai dialect, also known as Tiantaihua (simplified Chinese: 天台话; traditional Chinese: 天台話; pinyin: Tiāntāihuà; Tiantai dialect pronunciation: [tʰi...
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    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...
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    The following is a list of Sinitic languages and their dialects. For a traditional dialectological overview, see also varieties of Chinese. Proportions...
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  • representative dialect. Taizhou dialect Linhai dialect Sanmen dialect Tiantai dialect Xianju dialect Huangyan dialect (黃巖話/黄岩话 [wɔ̤ɲjɛ̤̃wa̤]) Jiaojiang dialect Wenling...
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  • The Nanjing dialect (simplified Chinese: 南京话; traditional Chinese: 南京話; pinyin: Nánjīnghuà), also known as Nankinese, Nankingese, Nanjingese, Nanjingnese...
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    Tiantai Mountain (also Tí Taî in the local language) is a mountain in Tiantai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Its highest peak, Huading, reaches...
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    Hokkien (redirect from Hokkien (dialect))
    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;...
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    and the Lower Yangtze, are not mutually intelligible with the Beijing dialect (or are only partially intelligible). Nevertheless, Mandarin as a group...
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  • 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...
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    Hakka Chinese (redirect from Hakka dialect)
    dialect Dabu dialect Fengshun dialect Hailu dialect Sixian dialect Raoping dialect Zhaoan dialect Changting dialect Ethnologue reports the dialects of...
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  • Wenzhounese (redirect from Oujiang dialect)
    three dialects: Northern Dialect, including dialects spoken in Wenzhou, Ouhai, Yongqiong, Yongjia. Southern Dialect, including Rui'an dialect, Wencheng...
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    largely conurbated. Taizhou's name is believed to derive from nearby Mount Tiantai. Five thousand years ago, the ancestors of the modern inhabitants began...
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    (Canton), Wuzhou (Ngchow), Hong Kong and Macau, which is the prestige dialect of the group. Taishanese, from the coastal area of Jiangmen (Kongmoon)...
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    eastern Guangdong. Standard Chinese takes its phonology from the Beijing dialect, with vocabulary from the Mandarin group and grammar based on literature...
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    Jilu Mandarin (redirect from Hopei dialect)
    Mandarin, formerly known as Beifang Mandarin "Northern Mandarin", is a dialect of Mandarin Chinese spoken in the Chinese provinces of Hebei (冀, Jì) and...
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  • 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...
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  • Taishanese (redirect from Toisanese dialect)
    alternatively romanized in Cantonese as Toishanese or Toisanese, in local dialect as Hoisanese or Hoisanwa, is a Yue Chinese language native to Taishan,...
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    Min Chinese (redirect from Min dialect)
    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...
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    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...
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    Teochew Min (redirect from Chaozhou dialect)
    other dialects; the Chenghai dialect (similar to urban Chaozhou dialect) is perceived as "soft", "cute", and "high-pitched"; the Teoyeo dialect is perceived...
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    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...
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    linguistic definition Fuzhou is a language and not a dialect (conferring the variety a 'dialect' status is more socio-politically motivated than linguistic)...
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    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...
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  • Shenyang Mandarin (Chinese: 沈阳话) is a dialect of Northeastern Mandarin used by people in and around Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning province and the...
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    Hainanese (redirect from Hainan dialect)
    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...
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    Huizhou Chinese (redirect from Hui dialect)
    Huizhou (Chinese: 徽州话), or the Hui dialect (Chinese: 徽语), is a group of Sinitic languages spoken in and around the historical region of Huizhou (for which...
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    Guoqing Temple (category Tiantai temples)
    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...
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  • The Jinxiang dialect (Chinese: 金鄉話; pinyin: Jīnxiānghuà) is a Taihu Wu dialect, or a Northern Wu dialect, spoken in the county of Cangnan of the prefecture-level...
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    Gan Chinese (redirect from Gan dialect)
    in terms of phonetics. There are different dialects of Gan; the Nanchang dialect is the prestige dialect. Like all other varieties of Chinese, there...
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    Siyi Yue (redirect from Sze Yup dialect)
    one of the most important Chinese dialects in Chinese American communities, is considered a representative dialect. The name "Sze Yup" or "Seiyap" (Chinese:...
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