- groups,
which are
mutually unintelligible.
Victor Mair
coined the term
topolect as a
translation for all uses of fāngyán. The
latter term
appears in The...
-
Cantonese is the
traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a
Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan
language family. It
originated in the city...
-
between language and dialect,
other terms have been proposed.
These include topolect, lect, vernacular, regional, and variety.
Syllables in the
Chinese languages...
- 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...
- (regiolect, geolect); some
regional varieties are
called regionalects or
topolects,
especially to
discuss varieties of Chinese. In addition,
there are varieties...
-
while English is
widely taught as a
second language. The
other po****r
topolect is Hokkien,
spoken by a
small percentage of the po****tion. The creole...
- with Thai
ancestry in
Central Myanmar.
Sukhothai language, a kind of Thai
topolect, by the end of the 18th century, they
gradually diverged into regional...
- an
abugida that
evolved from the
Khmer script.
There are
several Thai
topolects. The
Central Thai and
Southern Thai is
successors of
Sukhothai language...
- The
Haikou dialect is a
topolect of
Chinese and a
subvariety of
Hainanese spoken in Haikou, the
capital of the
Hainan province and
island of China. The...
- is
partly mutually intelligible with Lao, Isan, and some
fellow Thai
topolects.
These languages are
written with
slightly different scripts, but are...
