dialect

supriyanto
March 25, 2009, 12:29 PM posted in General Discussion

does mandarin has a/some dialect of it self? 

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hitokiri6993
March 25, 2009, 01:36 PM

Yes, actually Mandarin has tons of dialects to start with.

Here are a few(but not all of them):

-Beijing dialect (notice the -er endings at most sentences)... even to the point of adding er's at most parts of the sentence.

eg: My microphone...

   Standard: 我的麥克風。 (wo de mai ke feng).

   Beijing:    我的麥克風。(wo3 de-er mai ke-er feng).

-Taiwanese dialect- slight omission/s of the h in sh,ch,zh.etc. And often identified with Taiwanese-exclusive 語氣詞。

eg: I'm nervous!

Standard: 我緊張啦! (wo3 jin3 zhang1 la1!)

Taiwanese: 我緊張ㄟ! (pronounced: wo jin3 zang1 ei!)