Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects

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Original title 現代漢語方言大詞典 Pages 6556 Page count 6,556 Subject Dialectology Editor Li Rong		Language Chinese ISBN 978-7-5343-5080-1 Published 2002 Country China

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The Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects (Chinese: 現代漢語方言大詞典; pinyin: Xiàndài Hànyǔ fāngyán dà cídiǎn) is a compendium of dictionaries for 42 local varieties of Chinese following a common format. The individual dictionaries cover dialects spread across the dialect groups identified in the Language Atlas of China:

Mandarin

Northeastern Mandarin: Harbin dialect

Ji–Lu Mandarin: Jinan dialect

Jiao–Liao Mandarin: Muping dialect

Central Plains Mandarin: Luoyang dialect, Wanrong dialect, Xi'an dialect, Xining dialect, Xuzhou dialect

Lanyin Mandarin: Urumqi dialect, Yinchuan dialect

Southwestern Mandarin: Chengdu dialect, Guiyang dialect, Liuzhou dialect, Wuhan dialect

Lower Yangtze Mandarin: Nanjing dialect, Yangzhou dialect

Jin: Taiyuan dialect, Xinzhou dialect

Wu: Chongming dialect, Danyang dialect, Hangzhou dialect, Jinhua dialect, Ningbo dialect, Shanghai dialect, Suzhou dialect, Wenzhou dialect

Hui: Jixi dialect

Gan: Lichuan dialect, Nanchang dialect, Pingxiang dialect

Xiang: Changsha dialect, Loudi dialect

Min: Fuzhou dialect, Haikou dialect, Jian'ou dialect, Leizhou dialect, Xiamen dialect

Yue: Dongguan dialect, Guangzhou dialect

Hakka: Meixian dialect, Yudu dialect

Pinghua: Nanning dialect

Each dictionary was prepared by specialists in the dialect, and opens with an introduction to the characteristics of the dialect. The main body of each dictionary has between 7,000 and 10,000 entries.

References

Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects Wikipedia

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