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Posted on: Regional Accents Part II
June 18, 2008 at 9:05 AMHi changye. I haven't consulted any literature so I probably know less than you. Since I'm Cantonese, I keep hearing that Mandarin is gravely influenced by Mongolian in the Yuan dynasty, and later, by Mantchurian in the Qing dyanasty. Nevertheless, it seems that there is no "翘舌音" in Mantchurian(ironically, the counterparts of Mandarin zh ch sh are only used to transliterate Chinese). I don't know about Mongolian though...
Posted on: SBTG: Sun Yatsen
June 17, 2008 at 4:12 PMAs a graduating student from the Sun Yat-sen University of Canton, I would like to add that the English name was transliterated from Cantonese 孫日新 (IPA [syn jɐtsɐn]), instead of 逸仙([jɐtsin]). It seems that he had his English name well before his teacher in Hongkong changed his "號".
Posted on: I'm Married
June 1, 2008 at 4:54 AMhitokiri: No, they are not interchangeable. In the traditional Chinese culture when two people get married, usually the woman joins the family of the man, so there are different verbs indicating this "direction". For the bride, she "嫁給" her husband. For the husband, he "娶(qu3)" the woman.
And THEY 結婚.
That means, 嫁's subject is the woman, 娶's subject is the man, and the subject for 结婚 is plural.
Posted on: Regional Accents Part II
May 30, 2008 at 12:58 PMchangye: I searched 康熙字典, and found the pronunciation of "圾" in classical Chinese should be somewhat like "kiap/kap". The K sound might have changed to "ts" by patalization, forming "tsap". Since the ending for "垃 lap" is "p", the initial "t" got assimilated, yielding "lappsap". So I guess in the Min and Cantonese dialects, the characters should still be 垃圾.
Posted on: 中国的口音
May 14, 2007 at 3:15 PMHello! 我是广州人。 很高兴可以在ChinesePod 上看到有介绍方言的Topic。我阅读了一些关于我国方言的介绍，想跟Jenny 和乐观交流一下。我国的现代北方方言，正如Jenny所说，是受清朝官话影响较大的汉语。其中有许多的方面，包括发音、语法和词汇都有阿尔泰语系的一些特点。比如四个卷舌音zh,ch,sh,r 本来在中古汉语中都是不存在的，原来这些字大多是z, c, s, y声母的。另外，许多北方方言的入声韵已经完全消失（语言学上叫入派三声）而分配到其它声调中。而现代的大多数南方方言，如粤语，保留了中古汉语的全套入声韵尾和鼻音韵味：p k t m n ng。在上海话中，3个入声韵合并成为了一个。 根据语言学家的研究，其实很多现存的南方方言是在古代中原由于战乱南迁时的人们带去，并跟当地土著语融合的产物。一定程度上反映了当时中原的标准音系。比如粤语中的发音，绝大部分可以跟宋朝成书的韵书《广韵》相吻合。 而孔子所处的时代是上古汉语时期，这个时期的汉语发音现在研究还没有定论，但可以肯定与现代的陕西方言有天壤之别，而与中古汉语更接近。这个可以从《诗经》的押韵情况得出。 希望有更多关于方言的节目出来啊，如果需要，相信全国各地的朋友都会帮忙录制音频材料的。
Posted on: Mosquitoes
May 9, 2007 at 5:41 AMHi amber and LeiGaoRui! The character 搽 cha2 is not used in mandarin, however it is always used in Cantonese as an equivalent to Mandarin 擦 ca1 or 涂 tu2 (to spread on).
Posted on: SBTG: Sun Yatsen
June 18, 2008 at 9:15 AMhello changye,
I didn't know his 号 日新 until I went for a brief tour in our university history museum some months ago. Even people here in Canton thought Yat-sen was transliterated from 逸仙.
It's interesting that Zhongshan is actually his japanese surname. I'm not sure, but who knows if that's a reason why our University changed the name from Zhongshan University (ZSU) to Sun Yat-sen U.(SYSU) after the merge with Sun Yat-sen Medical School...