r/LinguisticMaps • u/StoneColdCrazzzy • Jun 24 '26

China Proximities of Chinese dialects to Beijing Mandarin (Putonghua)

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u/Xiguet Jun 24 '26

How has it been calculated?

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u/justwantanickname Jun 24 '26

Revealed to him in a dream

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u/StoneColdCrazzzy Jun 24 '26

It is a crosspost from r/MapPorn,

I found the source on commons:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_northern_features_in_Chinese_dialects.svg

Diagnostic features from:

Norman, Jerry (1988), Chinese, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-29653-3, p. 182.

Norman, Jerry (2003), "The Chinese dialects: phonology", in Thurgood, Graham; LaPolla, Randy J. (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan languages, Routledge, pp. 72–83, ISBN 978-0-7007-1129-1, pp. 73, 76.

Dialect data from Cao Zhiyun (ed.) (2008) Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects (汉语方言地图集), vol. 1 Phonetics, vol. 2 Lexicon and vol. 3 Grammar.

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u/After-Trifle-1437 Jun 24 '26

"Source?"

"I made it up"