A Grammar of Colloquial Chinese, as Exhibited in the Shanghai Dialect
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Spoken Chinese as heard around Shanghai is the subject of this grammar by Joseph Edkins of the London Missionary Society. He narrowed his field to the dialect of one district because nobody had yet written on the speech of the Kiang-nan province, and he pays close attention to how words group into compounds. He proposes new names for the tones, describing more than twenty natural ones from which each dialect picks four to eight, and adopts an alphabetic spelling for the sounds. This corrected second edition was printed at Shanghai in 1868.
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- Author
- Joseph Edkins
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 193
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Educational
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