Chinese dialect groups

The Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects (Chinese: 現代漢語方言大詞典; pinyin: Xiàndài Hànyǔ fāngyán dà cídiǎn) is a compendium of dictionaries for 42 local varieties of Chinese following a common format. The individual dictionaries cover dialects spread across the dialect groups identified in the Language Atlas of China:^[1]^[2]^[3]

Mandarin
- Northeastern Mandarin: Harbin dialect
- Ji–Lu Mandarin: Jinan dialect
- Jiao–Liao Mandarin: Muping dialect
- Central Plains Mandarin: Luoyang dialect, Wanrong dialect, Xi'an dialect, Xining dialect, Xuzhou dialect
- Lanyin Mandarin: Urumqi dialect, Yinchuan dialect
- Southwestern Mandarin: Chengdu dialect, Guiyang dialect, Liuzhou dialect, Wuhan dialect
- Lower Yangtze Mandarin: Nanjing dialect, Yangzhou dialect
Jin: Taiyuan dialect, Xinzhou dialect
Wu: Chongming dialect, Danyang dialect, Hangzhou dialect, Jinhua dialect, Ningbo dialect, Shanghai dialect, Suzhou dialect, Wenzhou dialect
Hui: Jixi dialect
Gan: Lichuan dialect, Nanchang dialect, Pingxiang dialect
Xiang: Changsha dialect, Loudi dialect
Min: Fuzhou dialect, Haikou dialect, Jian'ou dialect, Leizhou dialect, Xiamen dialect
Yue: Dongguan dialect, Guangzhou dialect
Hakka: Meixian dialect, Yudu dialect
Pinghua: Nanning dialect

Each dictionary was prepared by specialists in the dialect, and opens with an introduction to the characteristics of the dialect. The main body of each dictionary has between 7,000 and 10,000 entries.^[2]

References[]

^ Kurpaska, Maria (2010). Chinese Language(s): A Look Through the Prism of "The Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects". Walter de Gruyter. pp. 128–142. ISBN 978-3-11-021914-2.
^ ^a ^b Yan, Margaret Mian (2006). Introduction to Chinese Dialectology. LINCOM Europa. pp. 33–36. ISBN 978-3-89586-629-6.
^ Xiàndài Hànyǔ fāngyán dà cídiǎn 《现代汉语方言大词典》 [Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects] (in Chinese). Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. 9 May 2017.

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Overview[]

Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects
Editor	Li rong
Country	China
Subject	dialects
Publisher	Jiangsu Educational press 2002

Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects
Editor	Li Rong
Original title	現代漢語方言大詞典
Country	China
Language	Chinese
Subject	Dialectology
Published	2002 (Jiangsu Educational Press)
Pages	6556
ISBN	978-7-5343-5080-1

Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects is composed of 42 different local dialects of Chinese which was fully published in 2002 by Jiangsu Educational Press. The compiling work of the set of dictionaries started in 1992 with a team of sixty linguists led by Li rong under the regulation of the meeting agenda of the Press and Publication Administration of China (Zhongwen Xinwen Chubanshu) in 1988 regarding decisions made on publishing tool resources including dictionaries and reference books (Maria K 2010)

[Kurpaska-1] Kurpaska, Maria (2010). Chinese Language(s): A Look Through the Prism of "The Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects". Walter de Gruyter. pp. 128–142. ISBN 978-3-11-021914-2.

[Yan-2] Yan, Margaret Mian (2006). Introduction to Chinese Dialectology. LINCOM Europa. pp. 33–36. ISBN 978-3-89586-629-6.

[3] Xiàndài Hànyǔ fāngyán dà cídiǎn 《现代汉语方言大词典》 [Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects] (in Chinese). Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. 9 May 2017.

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