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ARTICLES RELATED TO Mandarin linguistics - Variations | | | |  Mandarin linguistics - Variations: Encyclopedia II - Mandarin linguistics - VariationsMain article: Dialects of Mandarin
There are regional variations in Mandarin. This is manifested in two ways:
Various dialects of Mandarin cover a huge area containing nearly a billion people. As a result, there are pronounced regional variations in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar encountered as one moves from place to place. These regional differences are as pronounced as (or more so than) the regional versions of the English language found in England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, Canada, and the United Sta ...
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| | | | Mandarin linguistics - Variations: 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, from the north-east (Manchuria) to the south-west (Yunnan), use various Mandarin dialects as their home language. The prevalence of linguistic homogeneity (i.e. Mandarin) throughout northern China is largely the result of geography, namely the plains of north China. By contrast, the mountains and rivers of southern China have promoted linguistic diversity. The presence of Mandarin in southwest China i ...
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| | | | Mandarin linguistics - Variations: 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 sound changes than have southern varieties of Chinese, and has needed to deal with many more homophones — usually by forming new words via compounding, or by adding affixes such as lao-, -zi, -(e)r, and -tou. There are also a small number of words that have been polysyllabic s ...
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| | | | Mandarin linguistics - Variations: Encyclopedia II - Mandarin linguistics - Phonology Mandarin, like most Chinese dialects/languages, is syllable timed, as opposed to many Western languages, including English, which are stress timed
The set of syllables in Chinese is very small, since each syllable has to be constructed after the pattern: "optional initial consonant followed by vowel followed by optional final consonant (which is either an offglide or /n/), plus tone." Not every syllable that is possible according to this rule actually exists in Mandarin, and in practice there are only a few hundred syllables. For exam ...
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| | | | Mandarin linguistics - Variations: Encyclopedia II - Mandarin linguistics - Standardized Mandarin Main article: Standard Mandarin
From an official point of view, there are two versions of standardized spoken Mandarin, since the Beijing government refers to that on the Mainland as Putonghua, whereas the Taipei government refers to their official language as Kuo-yü (Guoyu in pinyin).
Technically, both Putonghua and Guoyu base their phonology on the Beijing dialect, though Putonghua also takes some elements from other sources. Comparison of dictionaries produced in the two areas will show that ther ...
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