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Jìn 晉 Dialects

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Author(s): Ming SHEN
Jìn 晉 can be defined as the group of dialects spoken in Shānxī and its surrounding areas that preserves the entering ( 入) tone (Lǐ Róng 1985). These dialects used to be considered part of the Mandarin dialect group, but in the last several decades many scholars have considered them separate from Mandarin because of a number of unique features. 1. The Geographic Distribution of Jìn and Its Sub-Dialects According to the statistics in Zhōnghuá rénmín gònghéguó xíngzhèng qūhuà jiǎncè 中华人民共和国行政区划简册 (ZRGM 2004), over 62 million people currently use Jìn. Among them, nearly 24 m…
Date: 2017-03-02