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Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Shortcut. H:IPA-Jin. The following tables list the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols used for Jin Chinese (晉語), one of the Sinitic languages. All vocabulary are based on Jin Chinese in Wubu, Shaanxi Province.
macr1275. The Macro-Bai or simply Bai languages ( Chinese: 白语支) are a putative group of Sino-Tibetan languages proposed in 2010 by the linguist Zhengzhang, who argued that Bai and Caijia are sister languages. [1] In contrast, Sagart (2011) argues that Caijia and the Waxiang language of northwestern Hunan constitute an early split off from ...
Huizhou Chinese ( Chinese: 徽州话 ), or the Hui dialect ( Chinese: 徽语 ), is a group of closely related Sinitic languages spoken over a small area in and around the historical region of Huizhou (for which it is named), in about ten or so mountainous counties in southern Anhui, plus a few more in neighbouring Zhejiang and Jiangxi .
In 2009 she taught an invited course on the typology of Sinitic languages at the LSA Summer Institute at UC Berkeley. In 2010 she was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea. Between 2009 and 2013 she held an ERC Advanced Grant for her project SINOTYPE on the hybrid syntactic typology of Sinitic languages.
t. e. In grammar, tense is a category that expresses time reference, or when an event occurs. [1] [2] Tenses are usually manifested by the use of specific forms of verbs, particularly in their conjugation patterns. The main tenses found in many languages include the past, present, and future. Some languages have only two distinct tenses, such ...
Sino-Tibetan languages - Proto-Sinitic, Dialects, Classification: Greater dissimilarity is encountered with respect to Proto-Sinitic. The contrast of aspirated and unaspirated voiceless stops in initial position is most likely the result of lost initial cluster elements as in Proto-Tibeto-Burman. The voiced stops possibly also had the aspirated–unaspirated distinction. Unlike Tibeto-Burman ...
The Tai languages descend from proto-Tai-Kadai, which has been hypothesized to originate in the Lower Yangtze valleys. Ancient Chinese texts refer to non-Sinitic languages spoken across this substantial region and their speakers as "Yue". Although those languages are extinct, traces of their existence could be found in unearthed inscriptional ...
