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Beijing dialect

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Noun1.Beijing dialectBeijing dialect - the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Mandarin
Chinese - any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system


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Beijing dialect is erroneously identified as the standard for Mandarin speakers in China (p.
An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China by Howard, Pat / Pacific Affairs
The strenuous efforts of the Communists after 1949 to unify the spoken language by making the Beijing dialect universal, and basing a simplified written script on it, have not succeeded.
Regions and nation: the present situation in China in historical ... by Lary, Diana / Pacific Affairs
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