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	Identification of the varieties of Chinese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Similarly, the dialects that linguistics consider to be part of the Wu language are spoken over Zhejiang Province, Jiangsu Province, Anhui Province, and Shanghai Municipality, and so can be described variously as "Zhejiang dialect", "Jiangsu dialect", "Anhui dialect", and "Shanghai dialect".
		Another example is that although the Sichuan dialect is considered to be distinct from the Beijing dialect, linguists consider Sichuan dialect and Beijing dialect both to be part of the Mandarin group.
		Although, as with Europe, dialects of regional political or cultural capitals were still prestigious and widely used as the region's lingua franca, their linguistic influence depended more on the capital's status and wealth than entirely on the political boundaries of the region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Identification_of_the_varieties_of_Chinese (1350 words)

	Jiangsu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jiangsu borders Shandong in the north, Anhui to the west, and Zhejiang and Shanghai to the south.
		Although south Jiangsu was eventually the base for the kingdom of Wu (one of the Three Kingdoms from 222 to 280), it did not become significant role until the invasion of northern nomads during the Western Jin Dynasty, starting from the 4th century.
		Dialects of Wu are spoken in the southernmost parts of Jiangsu, such as in Suzhou, Wuxi, and Changzhou.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jiangsu (2857 words)

	Jiangsu - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jiangsu (Simplified Chinese: 江苏; Traditional Chinese: 江蘇; pinyin: Jiāngsū; Wade-Giles: Chiang-su; Postal System Pinyin: Kiangsu) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country.
		South Jiangsu is currently the dominant part, being much wealthier and more influential than the north, and has been so for centuries; it is also firmly a part of southern Chinese culture.
		Jiangsu is very wealthy among the provinces of China, with the second highest total gross domestic product (after Guangdong Province).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Jiangsu (2831 words)

	Wikipedia: Chinese spoken language
		The general situation is one of dialect continuum where one can understand perfectly people speaking the local dialect and that the intelligibility decreases as the the speaker comes from more and more distant regions.
		Wu 吳語/吴语: spoken in the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
		Although, the term dialect may imply that the forms of Chinese only vary in small ways as one moves from area to area of the country, in fact the differences are in some cases quite stark.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/c/ch/chinese_spoken_language.html (1144 words)

	Jiangsu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jiangsu (Simplified Chinese: 江苏, Traditional: 江蘇, Hanyu Pinyin: Jiāngsū, Wade-Giles: Chiang-su, Postal System Pinyin: Kiangsu) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country.
		South Jiangsu is famed for its towns crisscrossed by canals Jiangsu is very flat and low-lying, with plains covering 68 percent of its total area (water covers another 18 percent), and most of the province not more than 50 meters above sea level.
		The 13 prefecture-level divisions of Jiangsu are subdivided into 106 county-level divisions (54 districtss, 27 county-level cities, and 25 counties).
	www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/j/ji/jiangsu.html (2745 words)

	Wu (linguistics) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It is spoken in most of Zhejiang province, the municipality of Shanghai, southern Jiangsu province, as well as smaller parts of Anhui, Jiangxi, and Fujian provinces.
		The Northern Wu dialects are not mutually intelligible with the Southern Wu dialects.
		Wu dialects are notable among Chinese languages in having kept voiced consonants, such as /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/, etc. (These may in fact be better described as voiceless consonants that create a voiced breathy element across the syllable: i.e.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Wu_(linguistics) (553 words)

	Chinese dialect
		For example, a speaker of Cantonese dialect living in Hong Kong tends to feel a great deal of common identity with a speaker of Cantonese living in Taishan, even though these two varieties of Cantonese may be almost unintelligible.
		Mandarin: This is the mother dialect of Chinese living in Northern China and Sichuan province.
		Parents will generally speak to their children in dialect, and the relationship between dialect and Mandarin appears to be stable.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ch/Chinese_dialect.html (1120 words)

	Linguistic Features of the Chinese Language Family
		Dialect distinctions are common in any language extending over a relatively large area, or even a relatively small one where geographic features traditionally have precluded easy communication.
		However, in addition to a large number of dialect differences throughout the nation, certain regional groups of some dialects, mostly concentrated in the southeastern part of China, are for the most part so mutually unintelligible that they could be considered different languages of the same family.
		Dialects of the Mandarin group are spoken in three-quarters of the country by two-thirds of the population--one important reason why Mandarin was chosen for the national language (see the section on National Language)--and are for the most part mutually intelligible.
	servercc.oakton.edu /~billtong/chinaclass/Language/linguistics.htm (1704 words)

	Xiaowei Hunt Do you Know page
		The eight dialects are: North China (for the Northern dialect), Jiangsu-Zhejiang (for the Wu dialect), Hunan (for the Hunan dialect), Jiangxi (for the Jiangxi dialect), Kejia
		(for the Kejia dialect, a form of Chinese spoken by descendants of northerners who moved to Guangdong and nearby provinces centuries ago), northern Fujian (for the northern Fujian dialect), southern Fujian (for the southern Fujian dialect) and Guangdong (for the Yue, another name of Guangdong province, dialect).
		Of all the Chinese-speaking population, about 70% speak the northern dialect, which is the reason why it has been made the basis of common speech.
	www.unlv.edu /faculty/xhunt/douknow.htm (1069 words)

	Shanghai Dialect Introduction
		Many linguists today are convinced that the Wu dialects have a Tai-Kadai language family substratum from phonological traits such as implosive initials to the large number of shared vocabulary (Li, Hui 2001), and possible Hmong-Mien substratum in Wu dialects have also been hypothesized (Ballard 1985).
		Linguists who emphasize the dialect status of Chinese topolects (the bulk of whom are Chinese) counter-argue that the Chinese situation cannot be adequately judged by Western conventions precisely because of the existence of characters and their morphosyllabic nature (capable of representing both morphemes and words).
		The fate of the dialect is still uncertain although it has become increasingly apparent that the unique identity attached with the Shanghainese dialect is something that will continue to be cherished by the Shanghainese as they try to re-carve a cultural niche for themselves.
	www.zanhei.com /intro.html (2355 words)

	Free information of Identification of the varieties of Chinese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		From a purely Prescription and description point of view, "languages" and "dialects" are simply arbitrary groups of similar idiolect s, and the distinction is irrelevant to linguists who are only concerned with describing regional speeches scientifically.
		For example, the various dialects within Anhui Province are often called " Anhui dialect ", even though they are scattered in four of the "Chinese languages" recognized by linguists — Mandarin (linguistics), Wu (linguistics), Hui (linguistics), and Gan (linguistics).
		Similarly, the dialects that linguistics consider to be part of the Wu language are spoken over Zhejiang Province, Jiangsu Province, Anhui Province, and Shanghai Municipality, and so can be described variously as " Zhejiang dialect ", " Jiangsu dialect ", " Anhui dialect ", and " Shanghai dialect ".
	identification.of.the.varieties.of.chinese.en.qcat.org (1263 words)

	Dialects
		The variations within the Mandarin dialect are usually regionally bound or local, and commonly occur at the phonological and phonetic level.
		Eastern or Jiang-Huai includes the dialects spoken in central Anhui, and Jiangsu north of the Yangtze River and in the region of Nanjing (Nanking).
		Chinese is commonly referred to as a monosyllabic language because of the one-to-one correlation between the lexicon and the phonology of the language.
	www.lerc.educ.ubc.ca /LERC/courses/489/worldlang/MANDARIN/mandarin/main/dialects.htm (598 words)

	Travel CRIENGLISH
		Jiangsu cuisine, also known as Su Cai for short, is one of the major components of Chinese cuisine, and consists of the styles of Yangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou and Zhenjiang dishes.
		Jiangsu cuisine has the characteristics of strictly selected ingredients, exquisite workmanship, elegant shape, and rich culture trait.
		Jiangsu dishes can be classified into that of Suzhou-Wuxi style and Zhenjiang-Yangzhou style.
	en.chinabroadcast.cn /2245/2005-4-30/119@233162.htm (255 words)

	origin of Chinese dialects - China History Forum, chinese history forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Northern Mandarin: The main Mandarin dialect spoken in the Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, south-eastern and northern Shaanxi, northern Anhui, northern Jiangsu, northern Ningxia provinces and the Beijing area.
		Mandarin of the North-west: The main Mandarin dialect spoken in the Gansu, and the rest of the Shaanxi and Ningxia provinces.
		These four dialects are relatively close to each other (compared with other non-Mandarin dialects in China) and therefore they are all considered to be a part of the Mandarin dialect/topolect group.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=10938&st=0 (3006 words)

	Vita for R. VanNess Simmons
		Conferred by the provincial government in acknowledgment of cooperative work with colleagues at Nanjing University in researching and mapping the dialects of the province, for contributions to the training and guidance of Nanjing University graduate students in linguistic research and fieldwork, and for publications and academic presentations on the subject of the provincial dialects.
		The research undertaken with this fellowship focuses on Mandarin and Wu dialects in the Yangtze valley region of China, and was done in the Summers of 1995 and 1996.
		Dialect fieldwork focusing on Mandarin and Wu dialects in the Yangtze Valley region of China, under the auspices of the National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China of the Committee on Scholarly Communication with China and in affiliation with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, Summers 1995 and 1996.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~rsimmon/VitaRVS.htm (4450 words)

	History of chinese dialects - China History Forum, chinese history forum
		For dialects, it was spoken in a local region and in common daily lifes.
		He said that all the 7 major dialects were evolved from the old chinese (before 800 to 300 BC).
		Actually according to the World Hakka Association,Hakka dialect can be traced back to as early as Spring and Autumn period or Warring States era.I don't believe that Hakka dialect originated around or after Song dynasty because some language scholars had already verified that it is closest to ancient rhyme of old central plains.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=835&st=0&p=4367521& (1738 words)

	Wu (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Wu dialects are notable among Chinese languages in having kept voiced plosives and fricatives from Middle Chinese, such as /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/, etc. The only other major group to have done this is Xiang.
		Modernisation a Threat to Dialects in China - An excellent article originally from Straits Times Interactive through YTL Community website, it provides an insight of Chinese dialects, both major and minor, losing their speakers to Standard Mandarin due to greater mobility and interaction.
		China: Dialect use on TV worries Beijing (originally from Straits Times Interactive, Singapore and posted on AsiaMedia Media News Daily from UCLA) - Article on the use of dialects other than standard Mandarin in China where strict media censorship is high.
	72.51.33.237 /cgi-bin/nph-surf.cgi/010110A/uggc/ra.jvxvcrqvn.bet/jvxv/Jh_=2528yvathvfgvpf=2529 (975 words)

	Cycling: Host Jiangsu Claims 3rd Gold at National Games
		Jiangsu team clocked in a winning time of one hour and two minutes and 11.700 seconds to take the gold, beating Shandong to second in 1:02:18.488.
		Wang, who shattered the Asian record of the women's 3-kilometer individual pursuit last week, led the team from the very beginning and changed lead with her teammates in turn.
		Wang Jingjing won the first cycling gold for Jiangsu in the women's cross country last week, while Li Meifang added the second after winning the women's 20-kilometer individual time trial on Tuesday.
	en.chinabroadcast.cn /301/2005/10/19/165@25623.htm (317 words)

	Carter Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jiangsu officials report that all villages have organized villager assemblies or villager representative assemblies comprised of 1,540,000 villager representatives to make major decisions and supervise the VC activities.
		The primary, which was the first that Quanwang had held, was held on August 30 and consisted of an open, direct nomination process during a meeting of all voters (with 801 present) that resulted in 67 candidates for the position of VC chair and 164 candidates for VC members.
		The Jiangsu Province Election Measures are very qualitatively strong, especially in setting forth a detailed direct nomination procedure and apparently eliminating the roving ballot box, replacing it with proxy ballots.
	www.cartercenter.org /peaceprograms/chinashowdoc.asp?docID=541&chinamenu=report&submenu=peaceprograms (6649 words)

	Language
		It is believed to be the official tongue for the Middle Kingdom prior to the immigration of the northern tribes of Xiongnu, Turkistan, Liao2, Jin1, Yuan2, and Manchurian.
		The Hakka dialect should be regarded as one of the oldest, if not the oldest, of Chinese dialects.
		The following dialects all refer to the first personal pronoun as "ngo" or variations like "Nguan", "Ngan", "Ngou" etc. The historical significance of some are indicated, showing the early and widespread use of the nasal sound in the Chinese language.
	www.asiawind.com /hakka/language.htm (2798 words)

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		However, 'dialects' is as good a word as any, because it shows that the languages of Chinese are somehow related.
		Main paragon is the SuZhou (Soochow) dialect, though the Shanghai accent is gaining prominence due to the region's modern financial center for trade and commerce.
		The paragon for this dialect is found in Meixian (Moiyen, Moiyan), located in the north east of Guangdong.
	www.sungwh.freeserve.co.uk /chinese/ch-intro.htm (622 words)

	Dialectal Chinese Speech Recognition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In addition to Mandarin (Northern China), there is 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).
		These dialects can be further divided into more than 40 sub-categories.
		We will investigate several ways in which a modest amount of transcribed speech in a particular dialect can be used to adapt the acoustic and lexical models originally estimated on Mandarin speech to improve recognition accuracy for that dialect.
	www.clsp.jhu.edu /ws2004/application/chinese.shtml (218 words)

	Woo Tsin-hang
		Born in Wujing (武進), Jiangsu during the Qing Dynasty, Woo Tsin-hang (吳敬恆 pinyin wu2 jing4 heng2) (March 25, 1865 - October 30, 1953), born Wu Tiao (朓 tiao3), courtesy name Chih-hui (稚暉 zhi4 hui1), was a Chinese-born Taiwanese linguist and philosopher who coordinated the creation of Chu-yin, the ancillary phonetic symbols of Mandarin Chinese.
		His publications can be found in The Collection of the Works of Mr.
		"Woo Tsin-hang," used in the Academia Sinica's Western publications, is his name pronounced in the Jiangsu dialect.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wo/Woo_Tsin-hang.html (201 words)

	Geography of Wu Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Until the later Qing Dynasty, the province was called Jiangsu and it has been continued with that name.
		Jiangsu is located in the central of East of China.
		In Nanjing, they speak the Nanjin officer dialect and in Danyang, they speak of an dialect call Taihu which is also known as the Wu dialect, a mix of many highlander dialects together, hard for others to understand.
	www.wujiaquan.com /geo.htm (652 words)

	Mandarin - dialect ratio in dialect provinces in China - Chinese-forums.com
		Can someone describe the Mandarin - dialect ratio in dialect provinces in China - provinces where Mandarin is not considered the main dialect - e.g.
		Some of the dialects can be drastically different from mandarin, especially in pronunciation, without having a "name" so to speak.
		Over 90% of Chinese (don't know the exact figure) can read and write in Chinese (obviously using their own dialect in many cases) and most of them learned at public schools where only Mandarin is used.
	chinese-forums.com /showthread.php?t=7082 (943 words)

	Spoken Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, etc)
		All varieties of Chinese belong to the Sino-Tibetan family of languages and each one has its own dialects and sub-dialects, which are more or less mutually intelligible.
		Wú is spoken in Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces and in Shanghai and Hong Kong by about 77 million people.
		It used to be considered as a dialect of Mandarin, but is now thought to be a separate variety of Chinese.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/chinese_spoken.htm (634 words)

	Key Characteristics of Chinese Languages
		Peking dialect is considered the standard dialect of all Chinese in the People's Republic of China.
		Two additional tones (tonemes?) with some unusual qualities may be distinguished in some dialects: 10) "tense" high level (0-tone) and 11) "tense" high rising (*-tone).
		Each dialect can be further divided into two variants: New Xiang (northern urban variant) and Old Xiang (rural variant).
	www.cc.jyu.fi /~tojan/rlang/chi2.htm (1152 words)

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