- that has been
criticized as confusing. The
neologisms regionalect and
topolect have been
proposed as
alternative renderings of fāngyán. The
usual unit...
-
Cantonese is the
traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a
Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan
language family. It
originated in the city...
- Cantonese,
though that name is more
precisely applied to the
Guangzhou topolect of Yuehai.
Yuehai is
divided into four prin****l dialects, each of which...
- Anti-Chinese
sentiment (also
referred to as Sinophobia) is the fear or
dislike of China,
Chinese people and/or
Chinese culture. In the
western world, fear...
-
between language and dialect,
other terms have been proposed.
These include topolect, lect, vernacular, regional, and variety.
Syllables in the
Chinese languages...
-
Lower Ngari that is now an
independent language), is the
endonym for a
topolect spoken around Ngari Prefecture, T.A.R. Traditionally, it's
considered a...
- from
Central and
Southern Thailand.
Sukhothai language, a kind of Thai
topolect, by the end of the 18th century, they
gradually diverged into regional...
- (regiolect, geolect); some
regional varieties are
called regionalects or
topolects,
especially to
discuss varieties of Chinese. In addition,
there are varieties...
-
method described by
Simon de la Loubère
Sukhothai language, a kind of Thai
topolect, by the end of the 18th century, they
gradually diverged into regional...
-
while English is
widely taught as a
second language. The
other po****r
topolect is
Hokkien (Min Nan),
spoken by a
small percentage of the po****tion. The...