Yong-Quan dialect group

E227086

The Yong-Quan dialect group is a subgroup of Xiang Chinese spoken in parts of Hunan province, characterized by phonological and lexical features distinct from other Xiang varieties.

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Label Occurrences
Yong-Quan dialect group canonical 1

Statements (27)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect group
variety of Xiang Chinese
belongsTo Hunan linguistic area
country China
hasAlternativeName Yong–Quan Xiang
hasFeature distinct lexical features compared to other Xiang varieties
distinct phonological features compared to other Xiang varieties
internal variation among local lects
hasLexicon vocabulary distinct from Gan Chinese
vocabulary distinct from Mandarin
hasMutualIntelligibility partially intelligible with other Xiang Chinese varieties
hasPhonology initial consonant system typical of Xiang Chinese
tone system characteristic of Xiang Chinese
hasSpokenFormOnly true
isSpokenLanguage true
languageBranch Xiang
languageFamily Sinitic
partOf Chinese language
region southern China
spokenIn Hunan Province
surface form: Hunan province
status regional dialect group
subclassOf Chinese dialect group
Sinitic language variety
Xiang Chinese
usedBy local Han Chinese communities in Hunan
usesStandardForWriting Standard Chinese
writingSystem Chinese characters

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Yong-Quan dialect group
Description of subject: The Yong-Quan dialect group is a subgroup of Xiang Chinese spoken in parts of Hunan province, characterized by phonological and lexical features distinct from other Xiang varieties.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Xiang Chinese hasDialects Yong-Quan dialect group