Harbin dialect

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Harbin
Native to
China
RegionHarbin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologhaer1234

The Harbin dialect (simplified Chinese: 哈尔滨话; traditional Chinese: 哈爾濱話; pinyin: Hā'ěrbīnhuà) is a variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken in and around the city of Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province.

Characteristics

Harbin dialect is phonologically close to the

Standard Mandarin
language.

Vocabulary

The vocabulary of Harbin dialect is different from Standard Mandarin for two reasons. One of the sources of the distinct lexical features of the Harbin dialect is the area's colonial Russian influence. The Russian colonial period started in the 1900s, which marked the start of the influx of large amounts of Russian vocabulary, especially neologisms created in Europe and Russia that had never existed in Mandarin. The second source of lexical difference is the influence of language contact between the local Mandarin language and the Manchu language.

References

External links

  • Kurpaska, M. (2010). Chinese Language(s): A Look Through the Prism of The Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects. De Gruyter Mouton. p. 158. . Retrieved 2015-11-09.
  • van Oostendorp, M.; Ewen, C.J.; Hume, E.V.; Rice, K. (2011). The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 5 Volume Set. Wiley. p. 2565. . Retrieved 2015-11-09.