Beijing dialect
E57272
The Beijing dialect is the Mandarin Chinese variety spoken in Beijing that forms the primary phonological and lexical basis of Standard Chinese.
Aliases (1)
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese dialect
→
Mandarin Chinese variety → Sinitic language variety → |
| alsoKnownAs |
Beijing Mandarin
→
Peking dialect → |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Standard Mandarin
→
|
| country |
China
→
|
| differsFrom |
Standard Mandarin in degree of erhua
→
Standard Mandarin in slang usage → Standard Mandarin in vocabulary → |
| formsBasisOf |
Modern Standard Mandarin lexicon
→
Modern Standard Mandarin phonology → Putonghua → Standard Chinese → |
| hasFeature |
alveolo-palatal initials
→
distinct colloquial vocabulary → erhua → neutral tone → retroflex initials → rhotacization of finals → tone sandhi → weak syllables → |
| hasLexicalBasisFor |
core vocabulary of Standard Chinese
→
|
| hasPhonologicalBasisFor |
Putonghua finals
→
Putonghua initials → Putonghua tones → |
| hasToneCategory |
dipping tone
→
falling tone → high level tone → rising tone → |
| hasToneNumber |
4 lexical tones
→
|
| hasWritingSystem |
Chinese characters
→
|
| historicalRole |
basis of Putonghua in the People’s Republic of China
→
basis of the national lingua franca in the Republic of China era → |
| influences |
Northern Mandarin dialects
→
|
| ISO639-3 |
none (covered under Mandarin Chinese cmn)
→
|
| languageFamily |
Sino-Tibetan languages
→
|
| region |
Northern China
→
|
| spokenBy |
residents of urban Beijing
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|
| spokenIn |
Beijing
→
Beijing Municipality → |
| standardizedAs |
basis for national standard pronunciation in China
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|
| subfamily |
Sinitic languages
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|
| subgroup |
Mandarin Chinese
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|
| usedIn |
Beijing opera (Peking opera) pronunciation
→
local media in Beijing → |
| usesScript |
Simplified Chinese characters
→
Traditional Chinese characters → |
Referenced by (7)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Beijing dialect
("Beijing Mandarin")
→
|
alsoKnownAs |
|
Standard Chinese
→
|
basedOnDialect |
|
Jianghuai Mandarin
("Beijing Mandarin")
→
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contrastsWith |
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Northern Mandarin
("Beijing Mandarin")
→
|
hasMajorVariety |
|
Northern Mandarin
→
|
hasStandardBasedOn |
|
Mandarin phonology
→
|
isBasedOnDialect |
|
Southwestern Mandarin
("Beijing Mandarin")
→
|
standardBasedOn |