Talk:Shanghainese

message: The IPA in the "Common words and phrases in Shanghainese" section seems to be missing tones, which makes it of limited use, in my opinion. Can someone who knows Shanghainese add them? Lesgles (talk) 17:21, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: That's like asking someone who knows English to mark the English tones. I doubt that most Shanghainese people would be aware of the five citation tones and the complicated tone sandhi. --2.245.109.113 (talk) 21:25, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

text: Non-initial tones are basically irrelevant with sandhi. With a mapping from wungiu numbers to T1/2/3/4/5 in article we should be able to do it still though. --Artoria2e5 🌉 04:41, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Common words and phrases in Shanghainese" IPA 

message: “/i, jɛ/ are also similar in pronunciation, differing slightly in vowel height ([i, i̝] respectively).” Is the ‘i̝’ symbol correct here? Or should it be with a similar diacritic, however with a ‘tail’ pointing down? Kshatriya Drum (talk) 06:00, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  [i, i̝]? 

message: Shanghainese is well known for having a lot of variation between suburban varieties (本地闲话) and the “Standard” dialect from the historic city core. Many suburban dialects are now spoken in the area considered the “city” due to its expansion and retain some features no longer present in 中派/新派 urban shanghainese. 
This article doesn’t specify that it’s describing urban shanghainese and doesn’t at all acknowledge the existence of the variation in suburban dialects which are also commonly known as shanghainese.
Youtube channel ILoveLanguages has two videos showing the difference between urban and suburban (pudong) shanghainese.
I think these suburban dialects deserve at least a paragraph detailing their existence and some noteworthy differences between them and the urban standard. Thoughts? Yinm (talk) 01:32, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suburban dialects 

message: The phonology section describes the vowel system with the e/ɛ rimes distinct so it seems logical to me to include that distinction in the romanisation.
I am aware they were somewhat merged but **this wasn’t ever complete anyway**! (and there is an active de-merger process happening although this de-merger places 海 and 闲 in the same set (ɛ)) - thus the issue is not with the phonology section, whose inclusion of both rimes is the right choice. This leaves us with some options for romanising, for example, the word 上海闲话-
Zaon he ghae gho (most conservative)
Zaon he ghe gho (merger of -e and -ae during 中派 period- current romanisation used on page)
Zaon hae ghae gho (newest and possibly most common but I’m going off on personal observation here)
The most conservative form is still the didactically correct one for Huju etc and frankly given all three ways are in widespread usage the “proper” way seems the most logical. The current form is inadequate - there is no distinction. Writing in 新派 style -e.g 海闲 as hae ghae - could work too, at least it shows there is an -ae rime. However at the end of the day the important thing is that the -e and -ae rimes are distinct in the Phonology section - so consistency should also be retained elsewhere. Yinm (talk) 14:23, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Romanisation 

message: While I've seen this figure (28.9%) quoted often online, the closest to it that I could find was in
"Tang, Chaoju and Vincent J. van Heuven. “Mutual intelligibility and similarity of Chinese dialects: Predicting judgments from objective measures.” Linguistics in The Netherlands 24 (2007): 223-234."
The numbers are in Table A1, in the appendix. It doesn't list Shanghainese by name, but for Beijing-Suzhou lexical similarity it has .289 (.217 for Beijing-Wenzhou). Actually, under Suzhou-Beijing, it has a .298, which I assume is an error in their table.
I'm going to assume this is where the figure comes from, and edit the article accordingly. Owlblocks (talk) 17:47, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation for Lexical Similarity 

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