Siyi Yue has a representative dialect that is related to what larger language?
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Siyi Yue Siyi (Seiyap or Sze Yup in Cantonese; ) is a coastal branch of Yue Chinese spoken mainly in Guangdong province, but is also used in overseas Chinese communities. Within the province, it is mainly spoken in the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen, but pockets exist outside of Jiangmen, including the Doumen and Jinwan districts in Zhuhai, Guzhen in Zhongshan and Jun'an in Foshan. Taishanese, which was one of the most important Chinese dialects in Chinese American communities, is considered a representative dialect.
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Taishanese Taishanese, or in the Cantonese romanization Toishanese (; Taishanese: ] ), is a dialect of Yue Chinese. The dialect is related to and is often referred to as Cantonese but has little mutual intelligibility with the latter. Taishanese is spoken in the southern part of Guangdong Province in China, particularly around the city-level county of Taishan located on the western fringe of the Pearl River Delta. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, a significant amount of Chinese emigration to North America originated from this four-counties area called Sze Yup, making Toishanese a dominant variety of the Chinese language spoken in Chinatowns in Canada and the United States. It was formerly the lingua franca of the overseas Chinese residing in the United States.
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Kam language The Kam language, also known as Gam (autonym: "lix Gaeml"), or in Chinese, "Dong" or "Tung-Chia", is the language of the Dong people. "Ethnologue" distinguishes three Kam varieties as separate but closely related languages.
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General Chinese General Chinese ( "Tung-dzih") is a diaphonemic orthography invented by Yuen Ren Chao to represent the pronunciations of all major varieties of Chinese simultaneously. It is "the most complete genuine Chinese diasystem yet published". It can also be used for the Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese pronunciations of Chinese characters, and challenges the claim that Chinese characters are required for interdialectal communication in written Chinese.
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Xiapu dialect Xiapu dialect (Eastern Min: 霞浦話) is a dialect of Eastern Min Chinese spoken in Xiapu, Ningde in northeastern Fujian province of China.
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Philippine Mandarin Philippine Mandarin () is a variety of Standard Mandarin Chinese widely spoken by Chinese Filipinos. It is based on the phonology of the Beijing dialect and the grammar of Vernacular Chinese, and is identical to the standard of Mandarin used in the Republic of China, Taiwan that is called "Guoyu" (國語 ). In terms of phonology, vocabulary and grammar, Standard Philippine Mandarin is similar to "Guoyu" (Standard Chinese in the Republic of China (Taiwan)) because almost all uses dictionaries and books from Taiwan. Many Chinese Filipino schools uses bopomofo ("zhuyin fuhao") to teach the language. Philippine Mandarin uses the Traditional Chinese characters in writing and it is seen in the newspapers. "Philippine Mandarin" can be classified into two distinct Mandarin dialects: "Standard Mandarin" and "Colloquial Mandarin". These two dialects are easily distinguishable to a person proficient in Mandarin. "Standard Mandarin" is like the standard language of Taiwan, while "Colloquial Mandarin" tends to combine "Mandarin" () and "Min Nan Yu" (閩南語 ) or Southern Hokkien features.
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Languages of China The languages of China are the languages that are spoken by China's 56 recognized ethnic groups. The predominant language in China, which is divided into seven major dialect groups (often classified as distinct languages by foreign linguists), is known as "Hanyu" (). and its study is considered a distinct academic discipline in China. "Hanyu", or Han language, spans eight primary dialect groups, that differ from each other morphologically and phonetically to such a degree that dialects from different regions can often be mutually unintelligible. The languages most studied and supported by the state include Chinese, Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur and Zhuang. China has 297 living languages according to Ethnologue. According to the 2010 edition of the "Nationalencyklopedin", 955 million out of China's then-population of 1.34 billion spoke some variety of Mandarin Chinese as their first language, accounting for 71% of the country's population.
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Tong-Tai Mandarin Tong–Tai (Chinese: 通泰), also known as Tai–Ru (Chinese: 泰如) is a group of Lower Yangtze Mandarin dialects spoken in the east-central part of Jiangsu province in the prefecture-level cities of Nantong (formerly Tongzhou) and Taizhou. The alternative name refers to the county-level city of Rugao within Nantong. This region includes the areas which are to the north of Yangtze River and to the east of Grand Canal. There are about 11.37 million speakers there (in 2004) and this region occupies about 15,000 square kilometers.
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Nasu people The Nasu people (Chinese: 纳苏, "Nàsū"), are an ethnic group in the People's Republic of China. They are a subgroup of the Yi people and are mainly distinguished by their use of the Nasu language, one of five main branches of the Yi languages.
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Rui'an dialect Ruian dialect (瑞安話; pronounced ] in Ruian dialect) is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in Ruian. It belongs to the Oujiang sub-group of Wu Chinese dialects.
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Sifu Sifu (from Cantonese spelling) or shīfu (from Mandarin spelling) is a title for and role of a skillful person or a master. It may be written with the Chinese characters 師傅 ( )/师傅 ( ) or 師父/师父. The character 師/师 means "skilled person", while the meaning of 傅 is "tutor" and the meaning of 父 is "father." Both characters 傅 and 父 are pronounced ""fu"" with the same tones in Cantonese and Mandarin, creating some ambiguity. A similar term often used in Chinese is 老師/老师 (Cantonese Chinese pronunciation: "lou5 si1"; Mandarin Chinese pronunciation: "lǎoshī"), meaning "teacher" or literally "old person of skill".
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Sichuanese Standard Chinese Sichuanese Standard Mandarin (; Sichuanese Pinyin: "Sicuan Putonghua"; ), or Szechwanese Standard Mandarin, also known as Pepper Salt Standard Mandarin (), is a variant of Standard Mandarin derived from the official Standard Mandarin spoken in Sichuanese-speaking areas (mainly Sichuan and Chongqing) in China, and is often called "川普" ("Chuanpu" or "Chuānpǔ") for short.
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Punti Punti (, literally "local(s)") is a Cantonese endonym that refers to the Cantonese people of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau. "Punti" designates the Cantonese-speaking locals in contrast to the Hakka immigrants who arrived in Guangdong during the Qing dynasty, the Hoklo people who spoke a different language, and the boat-dwelling Tanka people.
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Chinese language Chinese (汉语 /漢語 ; "Hànyǔ" or 中文 ; "Zhōngwén") is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Chinese is spoken by the Han majority and many other ethnic groups in China. Nearly 1.2 billion people (around 16% of the world's population) speak some form of Chinese as their first language.
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Yeyi language Yeyi (autoethnonym "Shiyɛyi") is an endangered Bantu language spoken by many of the approximately 50,000 Yeyi people along the Okavango River in Namibia and Botswana. Yeyi, influenced by Juu languages, is one of several Bantu languages along the Okavango with clicks. Indeed, it has the largest known inventory of clicks of any Bantu language, with dental, alveolar, palatal, and lateral articulations. Though most of its older speakers prefer Yeyi in normal conversation, it is being gradually phased out in Botswana by a popular move towards Tswana, with Yeyi only being learned by children in a few villages. Yeyi speakers in the Caprivi Strip of north-eastern Namibia, however, retain Yeyi in villages (including Linyanti), but may also speak the regional lingua franca, Lozi.
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Piyo language Piyo (Biyo, Biyue; "pi31 jɔ31" (Jing 2015:11)) is a Loloish language of China. The people are ethnic Hani, and the "Bi-Ka" varieties (Biyo, Kaduo, Enu) are traditionally considered dialects of Hani. However, in the classifications of Bradley (2007) and Lama (2012), they are more distinct from Hani than other related languages are. Lama classifies Mpi as closer to Biyo dialect than Kaduo is.
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Hm Nai language Hm Nai (Mandarin: Wunai (唔奈 "wúnài"), Cantonese: Ng-nai) is a Hmong-Mien language (Mandarin: Miao-Yao, Chinese: 苗瑶) spoken in western Hunan province, China. There are approximately 5800 people speaking this language, and the number is decreasing. Mao & Li (1997) determined it to be closely related to the Pa-Hng language.
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Ai-Cham language Ai-Cham (autonym: "ʔai˧tʲam˩ "; ) is a language spoken mainly in Diwo 地莪 and Boyao 播尧 Townships, Jialiang District, Libo County, Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou, China. Alternative names for the language are Jiamuhua, Jinhua and Atsam. Fang-Kuei Li first distinguished the language in 1943. Nearby languages include Bouyei and Mak. However, Yang (2000) considers Ai-Cham and Mak to be different dialects of an identical language.
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Siwu language Siwu is spoken in the mountainous central part of the Volta Region of Ghana. It belongs to the geographic group of Ghana Togo Mountain languages (traditionally called the "Togorestsprachen" or Togo Remnant languages) of the Kwa branch of Niger–Congo. The speakers of Siwu call themselves the "Mawu" and their land "Kawu".
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Sanie language Sanie is a Loloish language of Yunnan, China. It is similar to Samataw. There were 17,320 ethnic Sanie in 1998, but only about 8,000 spoke the Sanie language fluently. The Sanie are also known as the "White Yi" (白彝) (Bradley 1997).
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Sinophone Chinese-speaking world or Sinophone or sinophone is a neologism that fundamentally means "Chinese-speaking", typically referring to a person who speaks at least one variety of Chinese. Academic writers use Sinophone "Chinese-speaking regions" in two ambiguous meanings: either specifically "Chinese-speaking areas where it is a minority language, excluding China and Taiwan" or generally "Chinese-speaking areas, including where it is an official language". Many authors use the collocation Sinophone world to mean the overseas Chinese regions of diaspora outside of Greater China, and some for the entire Chinese-speaking world. Mandarin Chinese is the most commonly spoken language today, with over one billion people, approximately 20% of the world population, speaking it.
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Changchun dialect Changchun dialect is a Mandarin Chinese variety spoken by people in and around the city of Changchun in the Jilin Province.