First Asian & Asian American Studies Student Research Symposium
Event Title
How Do Chinese Dialects Reflect the Way in Which Chinese Immigrants Settled in the United States?
Location
Center for Scholarly Communication
Start Date
4-11-2018 1:30 PM
End Date
4-11-2018 2:00 PM
Presentation Type
Poster
Description
As the world’s largest ethnic group, Han Chinese constitute approximately 92% of the population of China and near 20% of the population of the word. With so many people distributed in a vast area, there are several dialect groups which are closely related to the hometown of the different speakers. The Mandarin in northern China can be quite easily understood by most Chinese citizens, since it’s not much different from Putonghua, the Modern Standard Mandarin. While the languages spoken in southern China, especially the Wu, Min, Hakka, and Yue, may sound like foreign languages to those different dialect groups users. However, the speakers of those four languages have largely immigrated to overseas in more than 150 years. For the largest group of Chinese immigrants, Yue is the most common language that can be heard within Chinese communities in North American, Western Europe, Australia and South-east Asia by those Cantonese immigrants.
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How Do Chinese Dialects Reflect the Way in Which Chinese Immigrants Settled in the United States?
Center for Scholarly Communication
As the world’s largest ethnic group, Han Chinese constitute approximately 92% of the population of China and near 20% of the population of the word. With so many people distributed in a vast area, there are several dialect groups which are closely related to the hometown of the different speakers. The Mandarin in northern China can be quite easily understood by most Chinese citizens, since it’s not much different from Putonghua, the Modern Standard Mandarin. While the languages spoken in southern China, especially the Wu, Min, Hakka, and Yue, may sound like foreign languages to those different dialect groups users. However, the speakers of those four languages have largely immigrated to overseas in more than 150 years. For the largest group of Chinese immigrants, Yue is the most common language that can be heard within Chinese communities in North American, Western Europe, Australia and South-east Asia by those Cantonese immigrants.