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Changxing Dialect
The Changxing dialect (simplified Chinese: 长兴话; traditional Chinese: 長興話; pinyin: Chángxīnghuà; Wu: dzan-shin ghe-o 長興閒話) is a dialect of the Wu language spoken in the county of Changxing of the prefecture-level city of Huzhou in Zhejiang province, China. The Changxing dialect is the main native language of Changxing county. Other dialects spoken by migrants include other Wu dialects from outside the county, mandarin dialects and the Min dialect (Southern Min Southern Min (), Minnan (Mandarin pronunciation: ) or Banlam (), is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Sinitic languages that form a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Fujian (especially the Minnan region), most of Taiwan ( ... spoken by 平陽人/the Pingyang people). In the north-western part of the county, close to Yixing County, some variants of Yixing dialect are spoken. References {{Authority control Wu Chinese Huzhou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |