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32-534: Although these areas are near Beijing, Ji–Lu has a different accent and many lexical differences from the Beijing dialect , which is the basis for Standard Chinese , the official national language. There are three dialect groups: Bao–Tang, Shi–Ji, and Cang–Hui. People from the eastern part of Shandong, or the Jiaodong Peninsula , speak Jiaoliao Mandarin . The Bao–Tang dialect shares

64-493: A "swallowing of consonants", or 吞音 ; tūnyīn . ⟨ j q x ⟩ /tɕ tɕʰ ɕ/ become ⟨ y ⟩ /j/ , so 赶紧去 ; gǎnjǐnqù ; 'go quickly' can sound like gǎnyǐnqù ; pinyin ⟨ b d g ⟩ /p t k/ go through voicing to become [b d ɡ] ; intervocalic ⟨ p t k ⟩ /pʰ tʰ kʰ/ also lose aspiration and can be voiced, sounding identical to ⟨ b d g ⟩; similar changes also occur on other consonants. ⟨ f ⟩

96-651: A 1913 decision by the Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation , which took the Beijing dialect as its base but retained a lot of phonology from other varieties of Mandarin , resulting in the Old National Pronunciation . This was overturned in 1926, resulting in the "pronunciation of the educated natives of Beijing" officially adopted as the basis for the phonology of Standard Chinese (Guoyu) in 1926. In 1955,

128-470: A city, and its speech has held sway as a lingua franca. Being officially selected to form the basis of the phonology of Standard Mandarin has further contributed to its status as a prestige dialect , or sometimes the prestige dialect of Chinese. Other scholars have referred to it as the "elite Beijing accent." Until at least the late eighteenth century, the standard language of the Chinese elite had been

160-706: A feature known as 女国音 ; nǚguóyīn ; 'female Standard Chinese'. Moreover, the Beijing dialect has a few phonetic reductions that are usually considered too "colloquial" for use in Standard Chinese. These are often dependent on which syllables are stressed and unstressed. For example, in fast speech, initial consonants go through lenition if they are in an unstressed syllable : pinyin] ⟨ zh ch sh ⟩ /tʂ tʂʰ ʂ/ before ⟨ e i u ⟩ become ⟨ r ⟩ /ɻ/ , so 不知道 ; bùzhīdào ; 'don't know' can sound like bùrdào ; 老师 ; lǎoshī can sound like lǎor , resulting in

192-438: A glide or vowel it is often eliminated along with any following glides so 中央 ; zhōngyāng is pronounced zhuāng and 公安局 ; gōng'ānjú as guānjú . Sibilant initials differ significantly between Standard Chinese and the Beijing dialect. The initials ⟨z c s⟩ /ts tsʰ s/ are pronounced as [tθ tθʰ θ] in Beijing. ⟨j q x⟩ /tɕ tɕʰ ɕ/ are pronounced as /ts tsʰ s/ by some female speakers,

224-400: A more "refined" accent than the poorer people, craftsmen, and performers of the south. Some fear that the vernacular Beijing dialect will disappear. According to a 2010 study by Beijing Union University , 49% of young Beijingers born after 1980 prefer to speak standard Mandarin rather than the Beijing dialect. According to a UN report, nearly 100 Chinese dialects, especially those spoken by

256-706: A similar offer. Thus bachelor, master or post-doc degrees in "Teaching Chinese as a second language to Foreigners", as well as bachelor's and master's degrees in several foreign languages, are no longer only to be found at BLCU. Beijing Language and Culture University is often called "Little United Nations" in China because of its very large number of international students from various countries. As of 2022, there are approximately 9,000 international students in its campus, ranking first in China. As of 2020, Beijing Language and Culture University ranked no.5 nationwide among universities specialized on languages teaching and research in

288-645: Is a public university of linguistics in Haidian , Beijing , China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China . The university has the main aim of teaching the Chinese language and culture to foreign students . It is a key university directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. It is the only international university founded by the People's Republic of China named after "language" and with

320-413: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Beijing dialect The Beijing dialect ( simplified Chinese : 北京话 ; traditional Chinese : 北京話 ; pinyin : Běijīnghuà ), also known as Pekingese and Beijingese , is the prestige dialect of Mandarin spoken in the urban area of Beijing , China . It is the phonological basis of Standard Chinese , the official language in

352-439: Is the guttural Scotch or German ch. The Chinese Northern Mandarin dialect spoken in Beijing had a major impact on the phonology of the dialect of Manchu spoken in Beijing , and since Manchu phonology was transcribed into Chinese and European sources based on the sinified pronunciation of Manchus from Beijing, the original authentic Manchu pronunciation is unknown to scholars. The Manchus that lived in Beijing were influenced by

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384-471: Is voiced and relaxed in intervocalic positions, resulting in [ʋ] . Affricates are elided into fricatives when not word initial, such as 茅厕 ; máocè becoming máosi. Some of these changes yield syllables that violate the syllable structure of Standard Chinese, such as 大柵欄 ; Dà Zhàlán Street, which locals pronounce as Dàshlàr . The literary tones of the Beijing dialect tend to be more exaggerated than Standard Chinese. In Standard Chinese,

416-623: The 55 ethnic minorities in China , are endangered. The Beijing dialect is generally mutually intelligible with other Mandarin dialects, including Standard Chinese. However it is not intelligible with other Sino-Tibetan languages or even other Chinese languages including Cantonese , Hokkien , and Wu Chinese . The Dungan language is a Sinitic language derived from Mandarin spoken throughout Central Asia , particularly in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan . Speakers like Dungan poet and scholar Iasyr Shivaza and others have reported that Chinese who speak

448-701: The Kharchin variety of Mongolian. The aspirated bilabial stop /pʰ/ and the labial approximant /w/ are phonemes only found in loanwords from Chinese and Tibetan , evident in their limited distribution in Mongolian. Substantial diglossia can also be observed in Inner Mongolia. The Beijing dialect typically uses many words that are considered slang, and therefore occur much less or not at all in Standard Chinese. Speakers not native to Beijing may have trouble understanding many or most of these. Many of such slang words employ

480-576: The Nanjing dialect , despite political power having already been located in Beijing. Through the nineteenth century, evidence from Western dictionaries suggests that a shift occurred in the court from a Nanjing-based standard to a more local Beijing-based one. During the Qing dynasty it was used alongside the Manchu language as the official court language. The establishment of phonology of Standard Chinese dates from

512-630: The People's Republic of China and one of the official languages of Singapore and the Republic of China . Despite the similarity to Standard Chinese, it is characterized by some "iconic" differences, including the addition of a final rhotic 儿 ; -r to some words (e.g. 哪儿 ; nǎr ). During the Ming , southern dialectal influences were also introduced into the dialect. As the political and cultural capital of China , Beijing has held much historical significance as

544-588: The People's Republic of China declared that Standard Chinese was to be "modeled on the pronunciation of Beijing, draws on Northern Chinese as its base dialect, and receives its syntactic norms from exemplary works of vernacular literature". The Beijing dialect has been described as carrying a lot of "cultural heft." According to Zhang Shifang, professor at Beijing Language and Culture University , "As China's ancient and modern capital, Beijing and thus its linguistic culture as well are representative of our entire nation's civilization... For Beijing people themselves,

576-612: The Beijing dialect could understand Dungan, but Dungans could not understand Beijing Mandarin. In fundamental structure, the phonology of the Beijing dialect and Standard Chinese are almost identical. In part, this is because the pronunciation of Standard Chinese was based on Beijing pronunciation. However, the Beijing dialect also has vernacular readings of characters which are not only different, but have initial and final combinations that are not present in Standard Chinese, such as 嗲 ; diǎ , 塞 ; sēi , 甭 ; béng , 忒 ; tēi , and 色 ; shǎi . Other differences exist, including

608-513: The Beijing dialect insofar as pronouncing Manchu sounds was hard for them, and they pronounced Manchu according to Chinese phonetics. In contrast, the Manchus of Aigun , Heilongjiang could both pronounce Manchu sounds properly and mimic the sinified pronunciation of Manchus in Beijing. This was because they learned the Beijing pronunciation from either studying in Beijing or from officials sent to Aigun from Beijing. They could also tell them apart, using

640-474: The Beijing dialect is an important symbol of identity." Some argue that Cantonese is the "only dialect which has attained a level of prestige that rivals that of the standard national language." The dialect has been described as "the official language of the entertainment industry", making it also the "showbiz accent." Even within Beijing the dialect varies. Those north of the Forbidden City spoke with

672-408: The Beijing dialect. Both southern Chinese and southern Mandarin syntactic features were incorporated into Standard Mandarin, while the Beijing dialect retains features of northern Mandarin. The Beijing dialect also uses colloquial expressions differently. There is a conditional loss of the classifier under certain circumstances after the numeral 一 ; 'one', usually pronounced as yí with

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704-747: The Chinese influenced pronunciation of Beijing to demonstrate that they were better educated and had "superior stature" in society. A substantial proportion of the loanwords in Mongolian are derived from Chinese, with the oldest layer of loanwords in Written Mongolian being Chinese in origin. Much of Mongolian spoken in Inner Mongolia has been affected by Mandarin: lexical influence is claimed to be strong in Khorchin Mongolian , whilst there have been claims of phonetic influence from Mandarin Chinese in

736-639: The Ministry of Education, but the English name remained unchanged. September 6, 2002, witnessed the celebration of the 40th anniversary of BLCU, for which General-Secretary Jiang Zemin and Vice-Premier Li Lanqing wrote letters of congratulations, and the Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee Li Peng wrote words of encouragement. BLCU was granted the privilege to confer doctoral degrees in foreign languages and literature in 2011. Throughout its history,

768-618: The four tones are high flat, high rising, low dipping, and falling; in the Beijing dialect, the first two tones are higher, the third one dips more prominently, and the fourth one falls more. However, toneless syllables are incredibly common in the vernacular Beijing dialect and the third tone is realized as a low tone instead of a dipping tone, known as a "half third tone". Many of the Manchu words are now pronounced with some Chinese peculiarities of pronunciation, so k before i and e=ch', g before i and e=ch, h and s before i=hs, etc. H before a, o, u, ū,

800-443: The main mission of spreading Chinese language and culture. However, it also takes Chinese students specializing in foreign languages and other relevant subjects of humanities and social sciences , and trains teachers of Chinese as a foreign language . It used to be the only institute of this kind in China. After the push for higher education starting in the 90s, nowadays many other universities in almost every major city in China have

832-651: The proliferation of rhotic vowels . All rhotic vowels are the result of the use of the 儿 ; -r /-ɚ/ , a noun suffix , except for a few words pronounced [ɐɚ̯] that do not have this suffix. In Standard Chinese, these also occur but much less often than they appear in the Beijing dialect. This phenomenon is known as 儿化 ; érhuà , or rhotacization , as is considered one of the iconic characteristics of Beijing Mandarin. When /w/ occurs in syllable-initial position, many speakers use [ʋ] before vowels other than [o] as in 我 wǒ , and [u] as in 五 ; wǔ , e.g. 尾巴 wěiba [ʋei̯˨pa˦] . When / ŋ / occurs before

864-444: The recent edition of a recognized Best Chinese Universities Ranking , the sub-ranking of Shanghai Ranking . Early in the 1950s when the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language (TCFL) was still at the initial stage, the first generation of BLCU teachers took an active part in the pioneering work. As a result, the first school of higher education specially oriented to foreign students, "Higher Preparatory School for Foreign Students",

896-589: The rhotic suffix "-r", which is known as erhua . Examples include: Some Beijing phrases may be somewhat disseminated outside Beijing: Note that some of the slang are considered to be 土话 ; tuhua ; 'base', 'uneducated language', that are carry-overs from an older generation and are no longer used amongst more educated speakers, for example: Others may be viewed as neologisms used among younger speakers and in "trendier" circles: The dialect also contains both Manchu and Mongol loanwords: There are syntactic differences between Standard Mandarin and

928-509: The same tonal evolution of the checked tone from Middle Chinese as Beijing Mandarin and Northeastern Mandarin . Moreover, the popularization of Standard Chinese in the two provincial capitals has induced changes in the Shi–;Ji dialect causing the former to shift rapidly towards the standard language. This Sino-Tibetan languages -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This China -related article

960-611: The second tone, as if undergoing tone sandhi with the classifier 个 ; gè after it. In general, Standard Chinese is influenced by Classical Chinese , which makes it more condense and concise. The Beijing dialect can therefore seem more longwinded; but this is sometime balanced by the generally faster speaking rate and phonetic reductions of colloquial Beijing speech. 今天 Jīntiān 会 huì 下雨， xiàyǔ, 所以 suǒyǐ 出门 chūmén 的 de Beijing Language and Culture University Beijing Language and Culture University ( BLCU ; 北京语言大学 )

992-467: The university has educated more than 220,000 international students from 189 different nations and regions around the globe. As of 2022, there are approximately 9,000 international students in its campus, ranking first in China. The campus of BLCU is located in the Haidian District of Beijing. It takes about 330,289 m , and total building area is about 427,342 m . Most teaching facilities, including

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1024-497: Was established in June 1962. In 1964, the school was officially named "Beijing Language Institute" (Chinese: 北京语言学院 ; pinyin: Běijīng yǔyán xuéyuàn ). In June 1996, it was renamed "Beijing Language and Culture University" (Chinese: 北京语言文化大学 ; pinyin: Běijīng yǔyán wénhuà dàxué ). Its Chinese name was shortened in July 2002 to "Beijing Language University" with the approval of

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