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Cantonese is the
traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a
Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan
language family. It
originated in the city...
- an
abugida that
evolved from the
Khmer script.
There are
several Thai
topolects. The
Central Thai and
Southern Thai is
successors of
Sukhothai language...
-
forms of
Mandarin Chinese in
Taiwan and
Singapore Varieties of Chinese,
topolects grouped under Chinese languages Written Chinese,
writing scripts used...
- 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...
- (regiolect, geolect); some
regional varieties are
called regionalects or
topolects,
especially to
discuss varieties of Chinese. In addition,
there are varieties...
- 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...
- is
partly mutually intelligible with Lao, Isan, and some
fellow Thai
topolects.
These languages are
written with
slightly different scripts, but are...
-
between language and dialect,
other terms have been proposed.
These include topolect, lect, vernacular, regional, and variety.
Syllables in the
Chinese languages...
- of both
political and
market factors.
Language policies discouraging topolects in
Taiwan and Singapore,
official hostility against rural religious festivals...
- in Hoi An, Vietnam. The
Hokkien dialect or
topolect belongs to the
Sinitic group of
dialects or
topolects known as Minnan. This
language group further...
