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English: Map of the spread of northern features in local Chinese dialects in the core Chinese-speaking area. The following 16 phonological, lexical and grammatical features were selected by Jerry Norman as characteristic of northern dialects. Relevant maps in the Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects, reflecting fieldwork conducted between December 2002 and December 2006, are given in parentheses.
Areas with all these features are shown in darkest blue; those with none in darkest red.
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Diagnostic features from:
Norman, Jerry (1988), Chinese, Cambridge University Press, ISBN978-0-521-29653-3, p. 182.
Norman, Jerry (2003), "The Chinese dialects: phonology", in Thurgood, Graham; LaPolla, Randy J. (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan languages, Routledge, pp. 72–83, ISBN978-0-7007-1129-1, 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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