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875:, except that it normalized the pronunciations for all characters into the pronunciation of the Beijing dialect. Despite efforts by some factions to recognize and promote southern Chinese varieties as well, the Kuomintang strongly promoted Guoyu as the one national language and censored and arrested opponents of this movement, continuing this through the wartime years. Elements from other dialects continue to exist in the standard language, but as exceptions rather than the rule. 342:) in an attempt to make pronunciation conform to the Beijing standard. But these attempts had little success. As late as the 19th century the emperor had difficulty understanding some of his own ministers in court, who did not always try to follow any standard pronunciation. As late as the early 20th century, the position of Nanjing Mandarin was considered higher than that of Beijing by some and the 35: 314:' honorable').The grammar of the earlier form of Mandarin grammar was almost identical to that in contemporary Mandarin, with infrequent, minor differences in the usage of grammatical particular or word order in the sentence. Its vocabulary was also largely the same as in modern Mandarin, though some vocabulary has since been dropped from the language. 298:, as well as by the higher civil servants and military officers of the imperial regime serving throughout the country. This lect is quite close to modern Mandarin, but there exist some differences. The Mandarin language used many honorifics which have mostly disappeared in modern-day Mandarin daily speech, such as 860:
Meanwhile, vernacular literature continued to develop apace, despite the lack of a standardized pronunciation. Gradually, the members of the National Language Commission came to settle upon the Beijing dialect which became the major source of standard national pronunciation, due to the status of that
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In both mainland China and Taiwan, the use of Mandarin as the medium of instruction in the educational system and in the media has contributed to the spread of Mandarin. As a result, Standard Chinese is now spoken fluently by most people in mainland China and in Taiwan. However, in Hong Kong and
242:(Elegant pronunciation of the Central Plains), meant to represent the common spoken language rather than the "correct" literary pronunciation reflected in the Song dictionaries. This book became the standard speech of northern Chinese theatre forms. During the flight of the Song literati to the 840:
was convened with delegates from the entire country, who were chosen based as often on political considerations as often as on linguistic expertise. The conference deadlocked between promoters of northern and southern pronunciation standards and as a result, a compromise was produced. The
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after the Jurchen conquest, Neo-Confucians began to fixate on the idea of restoring "correct" pronunciation as it was believed to be spoken by the ancients. As a result, the subsequent rime dictionaries such as the Ming dynasty's
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dynasties), and mastery of these linguistic standards were necessary for upward advancement. Yuan dynasty North China developed a lingua franca known as
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as a specific language variety promoted for general use by the citizenry was originally borrowed from Japan; in 1902 the Japanese Diet had formed the
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L. Richard's ... Comprehensive Geography of the Chinese Empire and Dependencies ... Translated Into English, Revised and Enlarged
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became increasingly influential, despite the mix of officials and commoners speaking various dialects in the capital, Beijing.
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that had disappeared in Mandarin, as well as some consonantal endings from southern varieties and consonantal onsets from
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Macau, due to historical and linguistic reasons, the language of education and both formal and informal speech remains
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After the Republic of China was established in 1912, there was more success in promoting a common national language. A
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as too distant from the "elegant pronunciation of middle China" and was not actually spoken by court officials.
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The government of the People's Republic of China, established in 1949, continued the effort. In 1955,
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Præter hunc tamen cuique Provinciæ vernaculum sermonem, alius est universo regno communis, quem ipsi
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Historically, the word "Mandarin" refers to the language spoken by the upper classes of 19th-century
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standard set in 1906 included spellings with elements of Nanjing pronunciation. The sense of
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and Taiwan have diverged somewhat, though they continue to remain essentially identical.
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which more closely reflected contemporary speech. Ming scholar Lu Kun criticised the
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has always consisted of a wide variety of dialects; hence prestige dialects and
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Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916–1958
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dialect as a prestigious dialect. In 1932, the commission published the
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royal lands rather than regional dialects; texts authored during the
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with de facto official status in China, Taiwan, and Singapore.
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The politics of language in Chinese education, 1895-1919
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as a written standard regardless of the dialect spoken.
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The language of the literate ruling class was known as
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Vocabulary of National Pronunciation for Everyday Use
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