Language Atlas of China
Not to be confused with Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects.
| Author | Stephen Adolphe Wurm, Rong Li, Theo Baumann, Mei W. Lee |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Longman |
Publication date | 1987 |
| ISBN | 978-962-359-085-3 |
The Language Atlas of China (Chinese: 中国语言地图集; pinyin: Zhōngguó Yǔyán Dìtú Jí), published in 1987 in two parts, maps the distribution of both Chinese dialects and minority languages of China. It was a colloborative effort by the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, published simultaneously in English and in Chinese. Endymion Wilkinson rated this joint venture "outstanding".[1]
A revised edition has been in preparation since 2002.[1]
Classification of Chinese varieties
Top-level groups and supergroups of Chinese varieties identified in the Atlas
The atlas organizes varieties of Chinese in a hierarchy of groupings, following the work of Li Rong:[2]
- supergroups (大区 dàqū): Mandarin and Min
- groups (区 qū): Jin, Wu, Hui, Xiang, Gan, Hakka, Yue, Pinghua and groups within Mandarin and Min
- subgroups (片 piàn)
- clusters (小片 xiǎopiàn) are only identified for some subgroups
- local dialects (点 diǎn): localities that were surveyed
Contents
The atlas contains 35 colour maps, divided into three sections:[2]
- A. General maps
- A1 Languages in China
- A2 Chinese dialects in China
- A3 National minorities in China
- A4 Minority languages in China
- A5 Language distribution (Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region)
- B. Maps of Chinese dialects
- B1 Mandarin-1 (Northeastern China)
- B2 Mandarin-2 (Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and western Shandong)
- B3 Mandarin-3 (Henan, Shandong, northern Anhui, northern Jiangsu)
- B4 Mandarin-4 (Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia)
- B5 Mandarin-5 (Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region)
- B6 Mandarin-6 (Southwestern China)
- B7 Jin group (Shanxi and adjacent areas)
- B8 Chinese dialects (southeastern China)
- B9 Wu group (Zhejiang, Shanghai, southern Jiangsu)
- B10 Chinese dialects (southern Anhui area)
- B11 Chinese dialects (Hunan and Jiangxi)
- B12 Min supergroup (Fujian, Taiwan, eastern Guangdong and Hainan Island)
- B13 Chinese dialects: Guangdong (mainland)
- B14 Chinese dialects (Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region)
- B15 Hakka group
- B16 Chinese dialects overseas: (a) insular Southeast Asia (b) other parts of the world
- C. Maps of minority languages
- C1 Minority languages in northern China
- C2 Mongolian languages
- C3 Mongolian dialects
- C4 Turkic (Tujue) languages
- C5 Manchu-Tungus languages
- C6 Minority languages in southern China
- C7 Kam-Tai languages
- C8 Miao-Yao languages
- C9 Dialects of the Miao language
- C10 Tibeto-Burman stock languages
- C11 Tibetan dialects
- C12 Minority languages (Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region)
- C13 Minority languages (Yunnan province)
- C14 Minority languages on Hainan and Taiwan islands
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wilkinson, Endymion. Chinese History: A New Manual. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series (Second, Revised printing March 2013 ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-674-06715-8.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kurpaska, Maria (2010). Chinese Language(s): A Look Through the Prism of "The Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects". Walter de Gruyter. pp. 63–64. ISBN 978-3-11-021914-2.
External links
- "Digital Language Atlas of China", compiled by Lawrence W. Crissman, version 6, 5 October 2012, Australian Centre for the Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network (ACASIAN) GIS Data Archive. The full dataset consists of eight layers in ESRI shapefile format derived from the Language Atlas of China. The initial release (under Creative Commons v3.0 – Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) contains only a draft of the first layer, representing maps A1–4 and marking language families and major Chinese dialect groups, but not individual non-Chinese languages or subgroups of Chinese dialects.