Questions tagged [topolect]
questions regarding regional variants of the Chinese language
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Are there northern dialects which still preserve velars before front vowels?
It's well known that Modern Standard Mandarin has merged what were historically velar stops and alveolar silibants when followed by front vowels. For instance, 京 is "jing" rather than "ging", and 津 is ...
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Do any good topolect maps exist for Chinese?
I've been rummaging through English dialect maps. Here's an example of one on Twitter:
And an American one for good measure:
Do any good topolect maps exist for Chinese?
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Any evidence for z(h)uang (这么) and luang (那么)?
I keep hearing:
zuang [tsuaŋ]
and
luang [Ĩuaŋ]
for 这么 and 那么, respectively.
I believe it is Minjiang dialect (岷江话, 岷江小片).
I've flipped through a couple of books I have but I haven't been able ...
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What could 轰 be a contraction of to mean “what”?
轰 can be found in some dialects, often with a 个 found on the end, to mean what.
This is most definitely a contraction. (Similar dialects also feature a contraction of 哪 and 样 as 孃 niang, also meaning ...
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Help translating two lines of Zhang Shaolin's “Hakka homesickness” (客家乡情) + some weird pronunciations in that song
Song video. Lyrics, romanization (based on what I hear in the video), translation attempt.
张少林的“客家乡情”（客家话）
爱记乡情 齐家都係客人
最緊有煞拼求進 (AX 建议的写法)
莫忘乡情 齐家係自家人
只只回故乡寻根
叔公叔婆来相认
亲戚送礼来好热心
到处都有人亲
做事耐苦
人乌白也分明
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