Posts made in 2003

Shanghai Hua

Posted by Éric on Dec 18, 2003 in Sinology | 0 comments

Shanghaihua 上海话 (沪语) Table of contents A brief introduction Disclaimer pronunciation — an overview First words Numbers Pronouns Shanghai dialect, a brief introduction Though China officially has but one spoken language[1], stemming from Mandarin, called pǔtōnghuà or «normal language», it has nonetheless a score of dialects, most of which are still vividly used. Shanghanese is one of them, member of a wider family, that of the 吴 Wú dialects. Spoken by about 80 million...

Shanghai Hua 2

Posted by Éric on Dec 18, 2003 in Sinology | 0 comments

Shanghai Hua 2 The following tables will display characters à la Shanghainese, followed by the standard Mandarin characters, and then translation and/or comments. First part The following table will summarize the most common substitutions made in Shanghainese, that we will find everywhere afterwards. Interrogative Pronouns …𠲎？ [va] …吗？ Interrogative particle 吗 ma will always be replaced like this. NB: the character 𠲎？ (伐 with a mouth), (fa) may...

Creations (2002·2003)

Posted by Éric on Jul 4, 2003 in Creations | 0 comments