This book discusses the methodology of systematic Chinese Dialect classification, with particular attention to the conservative Miin and Hakka groups spoken in southern China. The book features extensive comparative tables of dialect forms, and a two-hundred page appendix outlining the diasystem of the four principal Wann'an dialects. 17 Dec 1999.

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Title: Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology: The Classification of Miin and Hakka
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3110158310
ISBN 13: 9783110158311
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Brand New

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This book discusses the methodology of systematic Chinese Dialect classification, with particular attention to the conservative Miin and Hakka groups spoken in southern China. The primary linguistic methodology employed is the historical-comparative method, and the dialects chosen as examples of classification are those spoken in and around the township of Wann'an in western Fukien's Longyan country.

The book features extensive comparative tables of dialect forms, and a two-hundred page appendix outlining the diasystem of the four principal Wann'an dialects.

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