[DOC] [TLE] Beijing dialect - Wikipedia [PAR] The Beijing dialect also known as Pekingese, is the dialect of Mandarin spoken 
in the urban ... For example, in fast speech, initial consonants go through lenition 
if they are in an ... sources based on the sinified pronunciation of Manchus from 
Beijing, the original authentic Manchu pronunciation is unknown to scholars. [DOC] [TLE] Standard Chinese - Wikipedia [PAR] Standard Chinese, also known as Modern Standard Mandarin or Standard 
Mandarin, also ... By contrast, Putonghua was called "the common speech of the 
modern man", ... In English, "Mandarin" may refer to the standard language, the 
dialect group as a .... Standard Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect of 
Mandarin. [DOC] [TLE] Mandarin Chinese - Wikipedia [PAR] Mandarin is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of 
northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the 
basis of Standard Chinese, which ... In the early 20th century, a standard form 
based on the Beijing dialect, with elements from other Mandarin dialects, was 
adopted as the... [DOC] [TLE] A Chinese yuppie in Beijing: Phonological variation and the ... [PAR] amined tends to fall on a continuum between a territorially based stan- dard 
variety and a regional or ..... One person, the chief representative of a 
multinational ... necessary here. Beijing Mandarin is a variety in the northern 
Mandarin dialect ... often complain that they cannot understand local Beijing 
speech. The difference. [DOC] [TLE] Rhotacization and the 'Beijing Smooth Operator': The social ... [PAR] mainly because Beijing speech has a lot of rhotacization. Beijingers are ... (Liu, a 
38-year-old male chief representative of a foreign bank). 1. ... sociolinguistics, to 
adopt practice-based approaches to the study of linguistic variation .... known 
feature associated with the vernacular accent,jing qiang, a Mandarin term 
referring... [DOC] [TLE] RhymeZone: Mandarin Chinese synonyms [PAR] Synonyms and other words related to Mandarin Chinese: All; Nouns ... 2. 
mandarin dialect. Definitions ... 3. Beijing Dialect ... 9. putonghua ... 27. 
transdialect. [DOC] [TLE] The Hong Kong cantonese speech community - Perse [PAR] Putonghua and regional minority chinese dialects[link]; 6. .... During 1983 British 
and Chinese diplomats were meeting in Beijing to ..... According to the 1981 
Census, the total population Hong Kong for all ethnic groups was 4,986,560. ..... 
Cantonese which had been voiced by the chief editor of the Wah Kiu Yat Bao, Mr. 
Ho... [DOC] [TLE] China facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about ... [PAR] China's capital city, Beijing, is located in the northeastern part of the country. ..... 
of this line are the socalled Mandarin dialects, based on the Beijing dialect and 
.... Wuhu and the chief outlet for the region's coal fields; Nanjing; and Shanghai. 
..... government as China's representative at the UN and on the Security Council,
... [DOC] [TLE] Covington & Burling LLP | Beijing [PAR] With more than a dozen professionals in our growing Beijing office, we leverage 
the strength of our global practice and decades of experience at the center... [DOC] [TLE] Language or Dialector Topolect? - Sino-Platonic Papers [PAR] Although the chief focus of Sino-Platonic Papers is on the intercultural relations of 
... to classify both the major groupings and the representative varieties of each of 
the major ..... the Yue group, the speech centred around Canton (Guangzhou) city
. ..... the same between Beijing-based Putonghua and 25 Yue dialects. [DOC] [TLE] Is Hong Kong really free or does Beijing call the shots: Commentary ... [PAR] Jun 16, 2013 ... (According to an interview this week, he is still in Hong Kong, where he hopes ... 
Meanwhile, the chief executive is currently selected by an "election ... acceptance 
speech in Mandarin - the mainland dialect - instead of local Cantonese). ... At the 
end of March of this year, a representative from Beijing invited... [DOC] [TLE] One State, One People, One Language - Pinyin [PAR] The personnel was to include two representatives from each of the provinces ... of

Question: Putonghua, the chief representative of this dialect, is based on the speech of Beijing
Answer: Mandarin