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Mandarin Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Mandarin Linguistics - Dialects
Main article: Mandarin dialects
There are regional variations in Mandarin. This is manifested in two ways:
Various dialects of Mandarin ...
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Mandarin Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Mandarin Linguistics - History
The present main divisions of the Chinese language developed out of Old Chinese and Middle Chinese.
Most Chinese living in a broad arc, f...
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Mandarin Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Mandarin Linguistics - Vocabulary
There are more polysyllabic words in Mandarin than in other varieties of Chinese. This is partly because Mandarin has undergone many more...
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Mandarin Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Mandarin Linguistics - Phonology
Mandarin, like most Chinese dialects/languages, is syllable timed, as opposed to many Western languages, including English, which are str...
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Mandarin Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Mandarin Linguistics - Standard Mandarin
Main article: Standard Mandarin
From an official point of view, there are two versions of Standard Mandarin, since the Beijing government...
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