• Nanjing dialect (simplified Chinese: 南京话; traditional Chinese: 南京話; pinyin: Nánjīnghuà), also known as Nankinese, Nankingese, Nanjingese and Nanjing Mandarin...
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    Nanjinese, Nanjingese, Nankingese, Nanjinger, Nankiner, etc.. In Nanjing dialect there is no difference between Nanjing and Nanjin or between Nanking and...
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  • Colloquial speech in many northern dialects has more extensive erhua than the standardized language. Southwestern Mandarin dialects such as those of Chongqing...
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    dynasties operated using a koiné language known as Guanhua, based on the Nanjing dialect of Mandarin. Standard Chinese is an official language of both the People's...
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    dialect. Lower Yangtze Mandarin is spoken in central Anhui, eastern Hubei, most of Jiangsu north of the Yangtze, as well as the area around Nanjing....
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    until the late 19th century were based on the Nanjing dialect, but Wade–Giles was based on the Beijing dialect and was the system of transcription familiar...
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    Nanjing has not changed for quite some time while in Mandarin Chinese (although the prestige dialect shifted from Nanjing dialect to Beijing dialect during...
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    Beijing dialect, a pronunciation standard since the 1850s. The use of Nanking syllabary did not suggest that the post office considered Nanjing pronunciation...
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    Hokkien (redirect from Hokkien (dialect))
    Pinghe dialect (平和腔; Pêng-hô khioⁿ) Zhangzhou City Proper dialect (漳州市腔; Chiang-chiu-chhī khioⁿ) Longhai dialect (龍海腔; Liông-hái khioⁿ) Nanjing dialect (南靖腔;...
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  • eighteenth century, the standard language of the Chinese elite had been the Nanjing dialect, despite political power having already been located in Beijing. Through...
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  • 40% in English and the rest in Mandarin Chinese (particularly in the Nanjing dialect, distinct from Standard Chinese) and Japanese, with an estimated production...
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  • of Chinese characters of the then-prestigious eastern Jiankang (now Nanjing) dialect. Go-on preceded the kan-on (漢音) readings. Both go-on and kan-on exhibit...
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    Nanjing dialect, but later the Beijing dialect became increasingly influential, despite the mix of officials and commoners speaking various dialects in...
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  • to: The people or culture of Nanjing, China The dialects spoken in Nanjing Nanjing dialect Nanjingese Wu dialects Nanjing (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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  • little success. During the late 19th century, the Beijing dialect finally replaced the Nanjing dialect in the imperial court. For the general population, although...
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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. "Chinese" is...
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  • Nanking (2007 film) (category Nanjing Massacre films)
    2007 documentary film about the Nanjing Massacre, committed in 1937 by the Japanese army in the former capital city Nanjing, China. It was inspired by Iris...
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  • Mandarin is distinctive from other Mandarin dialects. The main dialects of the language is the Nanjing dialect. The Jiao-Liao people are distributed on both...
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    Nanjing dialect. However, it does differ considerably from modern Standard Chinese, although they are still moderately mutually intelligible. Dialect...
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  • Beijing dialect which dominated the linguistic scene in China. A more suitable Chinese dialect in Gabelentz's view for science was the Nanjing dialect rather...
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    Urumqi dialect, Yinchuan dialect Southwestern Mandarin: Chengdu dialect, Guiyang dialect, Liuzhou dialect, Wuhan dialect Lower Yangtze Mandarin: Nanjing dialect...
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  • 江苏省志·方言志 [Jiangsu Provincial Chorographies: Dialects Chorography] (PDF) (in Chinese). Nanjing Shi: Nanjing daxue chubanshe. ISBN 7-305-03193-3. Archived...
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  • references to the "Hefei dialect" before the Ming Dynasty cannot be compared with the Hefei dialect today. Nanjing dialect, which evolved from Jinling...
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  • as "Taishan Township" until 2010 Taishan Subdistrict, Nanjing (泰山街道), in Pukou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Taishan Subdistrict, Xuzhou (泰山街道), in Quanshan...
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    this language was a koiné based on dialects spoken in the Nanjing area, though not identical to any single dialect. This form remained prestigious long...
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    character of the local dialect. In modern times, the city speaks a dialect that is transitional between the Eastern Mandarin of Nanjing, located just west...
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    the prestige dialect. Hangzhou – historic capital of Song dynasty. Huzhou - famous city for silk and fish in Zhejiang province. Nanjing – historical capital...
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    created by French missionaries in the 17th and 18th centuries when Nanjing dialect was China's standard. Postal romanization was used only for place names...
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  • items in Wutun speech that their ancestors may have spoken an old Nanjing dialect. Others think that they may have been a group of Hui people (Chinese-speaking...
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    only kind of old local opera in Nanjing, known as a native art which includes singing and telling in the Nanjing dialect, and is particularly rich in rhyme...
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