Assertion: prestige dialect | /r/CapableOf | shift to beijing dialect
Facets:
value: during the 19th century
type: TEMPORAL
value: from nanjing dialect
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Although the pronunciation for several names of Chinese cities such as Beijing and Nanjing has not changed for quite some while in Mandarin Chinese (although the prestige dialect shifted from Nanjing dialect to Beijing dialect during the 19th century), they were called Peking and Nanking in English due to the older Chinese postal romanization convention, based largely on the Nanjing dialect, which was used for transcribing Chinese place names before Pinyin, based largely on the Beijing dialect became the official romanization method for Mandarin in the 1970s.