ccyjie Posted August 31, 2012 at 09:02 AM Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 at 09:02 AM A map of Chinese dialects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiaocai Posted August 31, 2012 at 12:09 PM Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 at 12:09 PM What happened to 海南？ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestTexas Posted August 31, 2012 at 04:12 PM Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 at 04:12 PM Ehh Uighur isn't on the map, also some of the little spots in the south aren't labeled and apparently Hainan Island was hit by several nuclear missles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneEye Posted August 31, 2012 at 05:30 PM Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 at 05:30 PM OP, the map is of Sino-Tibetan languages, not of "Chinese dialects". Yue, Wu, Min, etc. are not dialects, but separate languages in their own right. If you want to translate 方言 into English, topolect is a more accurate word than dialect, but most English speakers won't be familiar with that word unless they have some background in linguistics. I also take issue with the implication that the Mandarin/官話 group is "Chinese", but Yue (Cantonese being one variety of Yue), Wu, Xiang, Min, Hakka, and Gan are not. Interesting that Jin is on the map but not in the list. WestTexas, Uyghur is not a Sino-Tibetan language, but a Turkic one. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hofmann Posted September 1, 2012 at 12:29 AM Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 at 12:29 AM Any Tibetan language is not a Chinese whateverlect. But cool story bro. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost in Mong Kok Posted September 1, 2012 at 01:24 PM Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 at 01:24 PM Doing a bit of searching there are a couple of different maps that may be of interest. Some are maps of Chinese languages and languages in China: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chinese/maps/maps.html Also this which looks a lot like a geological map, and needs some translation: http://robertlindsay.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/chinese-language-map1.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
civic94 Posted February 7, 2013 at 03:58 PM Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 at 03:58 PM the map doesnt seem right.. i thought sichuan had their own dialect, but it just says mandarin on the map. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneEye Posted February 7, 2013 at 04:29 PM Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 at 04:29 PM Yes, it's a dialect of Mandarin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
civic94 Posted February 7, 2013 at 09:31 PM Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 at 09:31 PM Yes, it's a dialect of Mandarin. can they understand each other if a mandarin speaking person talks to a sichuan person? how many total dialects are there anyways? 400-500? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hofmann Posted February 7, 2013 at 11:55 PM Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 at 11:55 PM Theoretically, infinity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted February 8, 2013 at 02:43 AM Report Share Posted February 8, 2013 at 02:43 AM Given that the total population of the earth is significantly less than infinity and could never reach such a value, and that dialects refer to a variety of a language spoken in a region or by a particular group of language speakers, I think your theory needs some adjustment :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goujian Posted February 26, 2013 at 12:18 AM Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 at 12:18 AM http://www.kiangnanese.com/html/maps/2009/0330/32.html This is reasonably more accurate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
陳德聰 Posted February 26, 2013 at 06:38 AM Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 at 06:38 AM The second one in particular seems pretty good if we're trying to get a picture of "Chinese" language groups. Map lists 官、閩、晉、贛、徽、吳、湘、客家、粵、and 平 in different colours which is very nice, especially with the breakdown of 官 and 閩 into respective areas which nicely correspond to 方言 Edit: as to infinite dialects, assuming we never go extinct I don't see how that theory needs adjusting at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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