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	Shanghainese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shanghainese, sometimes referred to as the Shanghai dialect, is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in the city of Shanghai.
		Tone sandhi of polysyllabic compounds in the Shanghai dialect has attracted the interest of many scholars, who have previously given only careful consideration to the tone of the monosyllable while trying to describe the rules of tone sandhi for polysyllabic compounds.
		It has been argued that the number of tones of the Shanghai dialect, generally held to be five under previous analyses, can be reduced to only two underlying tone patterns, or tonemes, by recognizing the existence of the phoneme "voiced h" (Xiaowen Shen, University of Tokyo).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shanghai_dialect (1190 words)

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		Dialects expert Zhou Lei pointed out that it was previously difficult to promote the use of putonghua in the relatively isolated city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province.
		While minor dialects with fewer speakers are seen to be most at risk from modernisation, major dialects such as the Shanghai dialect have also come under threat.
		Mr Zhou noted that in Shanghai, while there are still more than 10 million speakers of the Shanghai dialect, the sphere in which it is being used has become smaller.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /ST/2004/ST-190804.htm (459 words)

	Wu (linguistics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Wu (吳方言; pinyin wú fāng yán; 吳語 pinyin wú yǔ) spoken variations of the Chinese language are spoken in the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang ; and the municipality of Shanghai.
		Jerry Norman general introduction to the Chinese language and dialects Chinese (ISBN 0521228093) states that northern Wu dialects are influenced in their phonology and vocabulary from Mandarin dialects to the north.
		Wu dialects are notable among Chinese languages having kept voiced consonants such as /b/ /d/ /g/ /z/ etc. (These may in fact be better as voiceless consonants that create a voiced element across the syllable: i.e.
	www.freeglossary.com /Wu_Chinese_language (550 words)

	Shanghai Dialect Introduction
		Shanghai became a county in 1292 and would gradually grow from a steady population of 500,000 in the 1800's to 4 million by World War II.
		Besides Shanghai, Wu speakers are concentrated in two small and adjacent coastal provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu (the municipality of Shanghai is squeezed between the two provinces).
		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).
	www.zanhei.com /intro.html (2355 words)

	Shanghai dialect - The Jiggies Reference Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Shanghainese (上海話; pinyin: Shànghǎihuà) is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in Shanghai, Zhejiang, and southern Jiangsu.
		Wu dialects, the Shanghai dialect has voiced initials [b d g z v dʑ ʑ].
		The Middle Chinese [ -m ] ending rimes in Shanghai dialect have merged with [ -ŋ ], whilst some Middle Chinese [ -ŋ ] ending rime characters have become rimes with a nasalised ending, [ iã, uã, uɒ̃ ].
	www.jiggies.com /reference/Shanghainese (734 words)

	ipedia.com: Shanghai dialect Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Shanghainese is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in the city of Shanghai.
		Shanghainese (上海話; pinyin: Shànghǎihuà) is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in the city of Shanghai.
		Like other northern Wu dialects, the Shanghai dialect has voiced initials [b d g z v dʑ ʑ].
	www.ipedia.com /shanghai_dialect.html (829 words)

	Shanghainese Asked to Speak Putonghua
		Despite the frequent use of Shanghai dialect among the middle-aged and elderly, many Shanghai children are unable to speak the local tongue.
		As for the protection of the Shanghai dialect, Huang said the city is already working on establishing vocal archives.
		While discouraging the use of dialect, Huang pointed out that it is necessary for the city to support traditional local art forms, such as Shanghai comedy and Shanghai opera, which are based on the local tongue.
	www.china.org.cn /english/culture/143903.htm (964 words)

	Shanghai Travel Guide - China City Guide - China Travel Information - China Tours
		As one of the four municipalities under the direct jurisdiction of the central government, Shanghai is China's leading industrial and commercial city and major financial center, as well as a famous historical and cultural city.
		Shanghai is situate at 121o29' east longitude and 31o14' north latitude.
		Bordering on Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces on the west, Shanghai is washed by the East China Sea on the east and Hang Zhou Bay on the south.
	www.china-tour.cn /cityguides/shanghai.htm (596 words)

	Shanghainese
		Like other northern Wu dialects, the Shanghai dialect has voiced initials.
		The Middle Chinese ending rimes in Shanghai dialect have merged with, some of which subsequently dropped off.
		The Yin Shang tone (/55/) is not common in today's variants of the Shanghai dialect, having merged into the Yin Qu tone.
	shanghainese.ask.dyndns.dk (927 words)

	BBC Languages - Chinese - Real Chinese
		The Northern dialect has many sub-divisions which are spoken by the majority of the population.
		The differences between northern sub-divisions are not huge, but the differences between southern dialects are enormous.
		The major southern dialects are Cantonese, Shanghai dialect, Fujian dialect and Zhejiang dialect.
	www.bbc.co.uk /languages/chinese/real_chinese/languagenotes.shtml (866 words)

	Graham on Shanghainese
		First, Shanghai is a young immigrant city, only 150 years old, and Shanghai as it is spoken today is an amalgam of all sorts of influences, definitely different from the Shanghai dialect spoken in the Yu Garden in the year 1840.
		Shanghai was a city of the past with nothing to look forward to.
		She moved to Shanghai when she was young and met a Chinese-American sailor surnamed Fuller, married him and bore him a daughter.
	www.earnshaw.com /shanghainese/content.cfm?id=28 (2432 words)

	Shanghai Express (1932) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The government and warlord soldiers are speaking Cantonese, which is a southern Chinese dialect not generally spoken in northern China.
		The northern dialects of Mandarin Chinese (a Beijing dialect) and/or Shanghainese would be spoken instead.
		Shanghai Express would be perfect if it weren't for the god awful Clive Brook, as others have mentioned, he is terrible,wooden,stiff,corpse like.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0023458 (446 words)

	ZUO
		Secondly, in the Shanghai dialect, the classifiers for indicating constructions are zuo ®y, jian ¶¡, and zhi °¦.
		Perhaps Shanghai people use zhi °¦ to indicate these constructions because the salient feature of an organization, the members, are human beings (belonging to the animal family).
		B. Shanghai Dialect: Yao Ji, a native speaker of Shanghai dialect.
	pears.lib.ohio-state.edu /China/zuo.html (1497 words)

	Shanghainese (dialect) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		'''Shanghainese''' (上海话; pinyin: Shànghǎihuà, lumazi: Zanheireiwo, Shanghainese in IPA: {{IPA[zɑ̃ ɦɛ ɛ̤ wo]}}), sometimes referred to as the '''Shanghai dialect''', is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in the city of Shanghai.
		Like other northern Wu dialects, the Shanghai dialect has voiced initials {{IPA[b d g z v dʑ ʑ]}}.
		The Middle Chinese {{IPA[ -m ]}} ending rimes in Shanghai dialect have merged with {{IPA[ -n ]}}, some of which subsequently dropped off.
	goc.subdomain.de /Shanghainese (1325 words)

	Flowers of Shanghai : DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It was so painful to hear those actors butcher the Shanghai dialect so badly that I couldn´t keep myself from burstting out laughing throughout the movie.
		The lead male actor in the movie butchered his Shanghai dialect so badly in the beginning of the movie, that he ended up switching to his native Cantonese dialect for the remainder of the movie.
		And there are the men, who spend hours dining and playing drinking games in the houses, attended by the women who pour their wine, laugh with them, prepare their opium pipes and entertain them privately by appointments made with the aunties.
	www.pagenation.com /an/B00005K9OM.html (1219 words)

	China the Beautiful :: View topic - Protect Shanghai Dialect
		If no one knew the Chu dialect any more, the meaning would have been lost and the significance of the link between Daoism and Confucianism would be obscure.
		The major southern dialects Minnan, Hakka, Cantonese and Shanghaiese are particularly important because they are so much different from the other dialects.
		This is vastly different from the case of Chinese dialects of Minnan, Hakka, Shanghaiese etc, which are equivalent to German, French, Cech, etc. to English.
	www.chinapage.org /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=5995&sid=2775264062620f5b3e31b51abcdaa964 (630 words)

	Shanghainese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key.
		Opponents argue that this will encourage discrimination based on people's origin.
		Advanced tone sandhi and argument for pitch accent classification:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shanghainese (1190 words)

	Shanghainese Asked to Speak Putonghua
		Tao Huan, a dialect expert at Fudan University, conducted an investigation in Shanghai early this year, writing out some of the more rare characters and asking people of Shanghai origin to read them out in the local dialect.
		Sun's division carried out a survey of 8,000 Shanghai students, from primary school to university.
		Dialect Song Contest Brings Together People Across Taiwan Straits
	www.china.org.cn /english/Life/143850.htm (970 words)

	The Peking Duck: Dialects disappearing in China
		Modernization and the Three Gorges Dam are among the catalysts for vanishing dialects and greater adoption of putonghua.
		What has added to the confusion between the word ‘dialect’ and ‘language’ is the written form, which is of course common among the Chinese dialects (or languages), though there are minor ‘dialectal’ peculiarities.
		My guess is that the dialects/ languages of large areas and functional units (Shanghai, Beijing, the Cantonese area) but that the little niche dialects will disappear as their social unit becomes overwhelmed by the national culture.
	www.pekingduck.org /archives/001635.php (2533 words)

	MUTATION WORK SPACE
		In the boundless land of China, a lot of dialects are spoken, among which Mandarin is the standard modern Chinese, also the most widely accepted one.Well, the dialects reflect the local features, so we should attach importance to them likewise, such as Shanghainese, Taiwanese, Cantonese,Hakka, etc.
		Shanghai dialect is an important part in Chinese dialects, whcih boasts to be spoken by 70 million people.
		There's a kind of opera called Hu Opera here(Hu refers to shnghai), which is performed in the local shanghai dialect.
	www.mutation-workspace.de /article.php?AID=1024&dateS=&dateE= (454 words)

	Boing Boing: Shanghai Ning, crosscultural Asian/American hip-hop
		Topics are typically social commentaries such as the track named "Made in Shanghai" that takes a shot at the Chinese youth's blind infatuation with foreign pop cultures (Japanese, Korean) but also has a good amount of softer topics about unrequited or lost love.
		The formal name of the language is Wu, and it's spoken by about 7.5% of the people in China, according to the Ethnologue, and it's one of the thirteen or so major families of languages that people call "Chinese" (in addition to the 200 or so languages spoken in China that aren't called Chinese!).
		Linguistically, the distinction between language and dialect is the degree of overlap - "mutual comprehensibility".
	www.boingboing.net /2005/03/20/shanghai_ning_crossc.html (427 words)

	St. Edward's University
		This dialect is also known as "putonghua" (a term used in the People's Republic of China), "guoyu" (a term used in Taiwan), Beijing dialect, and Mandarin.
		It is different from Cantonese, Shanghai dialect, Taiwanese, and many other regional dialects, which can be considered mutually unintelligible, although the written language is virtually the same for all.
		For this reason, Chinese dialects are sometimes considered separate languages, but common history and a common writing system (Chinese characters) have had a strong unifying influence.
	www.stedwards.edu /hum/lang/chinese/chinese_faq.html (945 words)

	Xiaoyang "Sean" Wang: Why "Sean"? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Actually, "Xiaoyang" in the Shanghai dialect (the city where I grew up) sounds even nicer than the official mandarin pronunciation.
		When said in Shanghai dialect in a little bit fast way, "Xiaoyang" roughly sounds like Sean (which is Irish for "John", and pronounced roughly as "Shawn", definitely NOT as "Scene").
		Now whenever somebody calls me "Sean", it reminds me of the people I know from my days in Shanghai, and by extention to all the people I know from everywhere who are dear to me. And then I should be happy.
	www.emba.uvm.edu /~xywang/whySean.html (196 words)

	Flowers of Shanghai DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I have seen about 45 Chinese films and I have to say "Flowers of Shanghai" is the least interesting one I have seen so far.
		"Flowers of Shanghai" takes place in a brothel visited by very well to do Qing officials during the 1880's in Shanghai, a city notorious for its brothels between the late 19th century to the 1930's.
		I am sorry to say I do not recommend "Flowers of Shanghai" unless you are a fan of Hsiao-hsien Hou, the director.
	www.apexesources.com /dvd/720917528922 (886 words)

	shanghaihua
		Tonesin Wu Dialects (by James Campbell, 2002)
		Agrammar of colloquial Chinese, as exhibited in the Shanghai dialect.Shanghai: Presbyterian mission press, 1868.
		[Grammar of Shanghai Dialect by Qian Nairong, Shanghai People'sPress, 1997]
	www.csulb.edu /~txie/shanghaihua.html (305 words)

	Shanghai dialect (Wu Chinese) - 上海话（× - China History Forum, chinese history forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Shanghai dialect (Wu Chinese) - 上海话（× - China History Forum, chinese history forum
		China History Forum is an online chinese history forum, discussion board or community for all who are interested in learning and discussing chinese history from prehistoric till modern times, including chinese art of war, chinese culture topics.
		As a fluent Shanghainese speaker, who grew up in HK and USA (parents were exiles from heart of Shanghai), we NEVER infuse mandarin sounds within our words.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=824&view=getlastpost (656 words)

	Chinese Interpreters - Asian Absolute
		There are seven main dialects in common use in mainland China, plus scores of local variations.
		A person speaking Shanghai dialect, for example, will not be understood by many Chinese interpreters who have not lived in Shanghai, and inhabitants of remote provinces such as Guangxi on the Vietnamese border speak dialects which are almost distinct languages.
		In the majority of business interpreting situations either Mandarin, Cantonese or (less commonly) Shanghai dialect should be used.
	www.asianabsolute.co.uk /interpreting-services/chinese-interpreter.html (335 words)

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