The Qingdao dialect is the local dialect of the city of
Qingdao
Qingdao (, also spelled Tsingtao; , Mandarin: ) is a major city in eastern Shandong Province. The city's name in Chinese characters literally means " azure island". Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, it is a major nodal city of the One Belt ...
and nearby towns, in China's
Shandong
Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region.
Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...
Province.
Often characterized as requiring a "fat tongue", the Qingdao dialect often adds a // ("th") sound to
Mandarin
Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to:
Language
* Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country
** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China
** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...
's // ("sh"), // ("x"), and // ("s"). It also obliterates many Mandarin tones.
The basic, though not at all universal rule for converting Putonghua to the Qingdao dialect in the
pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally written in Chinese for ...
system is that a Mandarin 1 tone will become a Qingdao 3, 2 becomes a 4, 3 becomes 1 and 4 remains four. The Qingdao dialect's 1 tone (Mandarin's 3) also has a drawl to it. (the pinyin tones are: 1ˉ 2ˊ 3ˇ 4ˋ)
There are other phonetic changes from Mandarin to the Qingdao dialect:
*"gá •la" (), the local spicy
clam
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dish, known in Mandarin as "gé •li"
*"hā pì jiū" (), drink
beer
Beer is one of the oldest and the most widely consumed type of alcoholic drink in the world, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches, mainly derived from ce ...
*"bài dào •dao" (), meaning "no need to say more", but better understood to mean "shut up". Literally translated as "don't blather on".
*"Zhei Ba (窄巴), narrow (窄 is pronounced as Zhei in Qingdao dialect, different from Zhai in Putonghua)
*"Biao (彪)/ Chao (嘲)/ Ban Xian (半仙)/ Yu (愚), stupid
Nearly all Qingdao natives can understand Mandarin, but they will often respond in the Qingdao dialect without realizing they are doing so. The Qingdao dialect is not necessarily standardized throughout Qingdao. Different neighbourhoods, from
Zhanshan to
Xinjiazhuang to
Maidao, will have their own variations.
Qingdao's urban dialect words originated between the 1940s and the 1960s. It has slowly developed its own "-isms" and slang over the years.
See also
*
Jiaoliao Mandarin
Jiaoliao or Jiao–Liao Mandarin () is a primary dialect of Mandarin Chinese, spoken on the Jiaodong Peninsula, from Yantai to Qingdao, Ganyu District in northeastern Jiangsu and the Liaodong Peninsula, from Dalian to Dandong, and in Mishan ...
References
External links
鲁葱的母语：青岛话(in Chinese)
青岛市志•方言志(in Chinese)
(in Chinese)
{{Shandong topics
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