The point of all this is that Mandarin is one of many dialects, and it is important to understand the diversity of dialects within China. Linguists have split Chinese into somewhere between seven and ...
Xu, Hongzhi Jiang, Menghan Lin, Jingxia and Huang, Chu-Ren 2022. Light verb variations and varieties of Mandarin Chinese: Comparable corpus driven approaches to grammatical variations. Corpus ...
Professor Xi Huidong points out that besides food, language also traveled along the ancient Silk Road routes. He takes the Shaanxi dialect " kelimacha" as an example.
JOHNSTOWN, PA – While distinct languages and dialects are common to human societies, most people are unaware that other species may similarly have culturally significant dialects. New research ...
Okinawa Prefecture, home of the Ryukyu Kingdom that was incorporated into Japan in the late 19th century, provides a time capsule of dialects that are in the brink of dying out in the modern age.