Language name: | MANDARIN |
UPSID number: | 2500 |
Alternate name(s): | |
Classification: | Sino-Tibetan, Sinitic |
This language has | 32 segments |
Its Frequency index is | 0.318251109 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: | p ph "t "th k kh "ts "tsh cC f "s t.s t.sh s. z. C X m n N "l i y a u o(+ j wj w a. cCh "@. |
Comment: | Mandarin is spoken in all of north of Changjiang River, a belt south of the Changjian from Qiujiang (Jiangxi) to Zhenjiang (jiangsu), Hubei except the southeastern corner Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, the northwestern part of Guangxi and the northwestern corner of Hunan. |
Source(s): | Chao, Y-R. 1968. A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. University of California Press, Berkeley. Cheng, C-C. 1973. A Synchronic Phonology of Mandarin Chinese. Mouton, The Hague. Dow, F.D.M. 1972. An Outline of Mandarin Phonetics. Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. (Hanyu Fangyan Gaiyao) 1960. [Outline of Chinese Dialects]. Wenzi Gaige Chubanshe, Beijing. Karllgren, B. 1915-26. Etudes sur la phonologie Chinoise. Archives d'Etudes Orientales 15: 294-297. |