in rural Qinghai that have been influenced by neighboring minority languages. Gangou Mandarin is spoken in Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County, at the very...
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the same holds for Mangghuer and Sinitic languages, and local varieties of Chinese such as the Gangou language were in turn influenced by Monguor. Vowel...
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An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. 'Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese...
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Central Plains Mandarin (category Language articles with old speaker data)
(河州) Region: e.g. Gangou dialect (甘沟话) (influenced by Monguor) Nanjiang (南疆) Region: e.g. Yanqi dialect, Tulufan dialect Dungan language, written in Cyrillic...
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languages in China. The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages,...
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Hokkien (redirect from Hokkien language)
HOK-ee-en, US also /ˈhoʊkiɛn/ HOH-kee-en) is a variety of the Southern Min languages, native to and originating from the Minnan region, in the southeastern...
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Standard Chinese (redirect from Putonghua language)
era (1912‒1949). It is designated as the official language of mainland China and a major language in the United Nations, Singapore, and Taiwan. It is...
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Sichuanese dialects (redirect from Sichuan language)
by many Tibetan, Yi, Qiang and other ethnic minority groups as a second language. Sichuanese is more similar to Standard Chinese than southeastern Chinese...
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The earliest historical linguistic evidence of the spoken Chinese language dates back approximately 4500 years, while examples of the writing system that...
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