Shanghainese
E155949
Shanghainese is a Wu Chinese dialect spoken primarily in Shanghai and its surrounding region, known for its distinct phonology and limited mutual intelligibility with Mandarin.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shanghainese canonical | 25 |
| Shanghai dialect | 1 |
| Shanghaihua | 1 |
| Shanghainese (de facto urban prestige variety) | 1 |
| Shanghainese (de facto) | 1 |
| Shaoxing dialect | 1 |
| Suzhounese | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1368808 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Shanghainese Context triple: [Soong Mei-ling, languageSpoken, Shanghainese]
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A.
Teochew
Teochew is a Southern Min Chinese dialect originating from the Chaoshan region of Guangdong, widely spoken in overseas Chinese communities across Southeast Asia.
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B.
Jiaoliao Mandarin
Jiaoliao Mandarin is a regional variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken primarily in the Jiaodong and Liaodong peninsulas of northeastern China.
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C.
Southwestern Mandarin
Southwestern Mandarin is a major branch of Mandarin Chinese spoken across much of southwestern China, characterized by distinct phonological features and regional variations.
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D.
Jianghuai Mandarin
Jianghuai Mandarin is a major subgroup of Mandarin Chinese dialects spoken primarily in central and northern Jiangsu and adjacent areas of Anhui.
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E.
Northern Mandarin
Northern Mandarin is the largest and most influential group of Mandarin Chinese dialects, forming the basis for Standard Chinese and widely spoken across northern and southwestern China.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Shanghainese Target entity description: Shanghainese is a Wu Chinese dialect spoken primarily in Shanghai and its surrounding region, known for its distinct phonology and limited mutual intelligibility with Mandarin.
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A.
Teochew
Teochew is a Southern Min Chinese dialect originating from the Chaoshan region of Guangdong, widely spoken in overseas Chinese communities across Southeast Asia.
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B.
Jiaoliao Mandarin
Jiaoliao Mandarin is a regional variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken primarily in the Jiaodong and Liaodong peninsulas of northeastern China.
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C.
Southwestern Mandarin
Southwestern Mandarin is a major branch of Mandarin Chinese spoken across much of southwestern China, characterized by distinct phonological features and regional variations.
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D.
Jianghuai Mandarin
Jianghuai Mandarin is a major subgroup of Mandarin Chinese dialects spoken primarily in central and northern Jiangsu and adjacent areas of Anhui.
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E.
Northern Mandarin
Northern Mandarin is the largest and most influential group of Mandarin Chinese dialects, forming the basis for Standard Chinese and widely spoken across northern and southwestern China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sinitic language variety
ⓘ
Wu Chinese dialect ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Hu language
ⓘ
Shanghainese ⓘ
surface form:
Shanghai dialect
Shanghainese ⓘ
surface form:
Shanghaihua
上海话 ⓘ 沪语 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
lexicon significantly different from Mandarin
ⓘ
morphosyntax similar to other Chinese varieties ⓘ pronouns distinct from Mandarin ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | shang1310 ⓘ |
| hasISOCode | wuu ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ Shanghainese-accented Mandarin ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
checked tones
ⓘ
contrastive aspiration in stops ⓘ large inventory of vowels ⓘ relatively complex tone system ⓘ syllabic consonants in some analyses ⓘ tone sandhi ⓘ voiced obstruents ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticStatus |
declining intergenerational transmission
ⓘ
regional lingua franca in Shanghai region ⓘ |
| historicalInfluenceFrom |
Jiangnan Mandarin
ⓘ
Ningbonese ⓘ Suzhounese ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Standard Chinese
ⓘ
surface form:
Standard Mandarin
|
| isNotMutuallyIntelligibleWith |
Standard Chinese
ⓘ
surface form:
Standard Mandarin
|
| isSpokenPrimarilyBy |
Han Chinese
ⓘ
surface form:
Han Chinese in Shanghai region
|
| languageBranch | Sinitic ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Sino-Tibetan
ⓘ
Wu Chinese ⓘ |
| mutualIntelligibilityWith |
Suzhounese
ⓘ
other Northern Wu dialects ⓘ |
| mutualIntelligibilityWithMandarin | low ⓘ |
| region | Yangtze River Delta ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Shanghai
ⓘ
Shanghai ⓘ
surface form:
Shanghai municipality
parts of Jiangsu province ⓘ parts of Zhejiang province ⓘ |
| standardBasedOn | urban Shanghai speech ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Northern Wu ⓘ |
| usedBy |
migrants assimilated into Shanghai local community
ⓘ
native residents of Shanghai ⓘ |
| usesScript | Han script ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Chinese characters ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Shanghainese Description of subject: Shanghainese is a Wu Chinese dialect spoken primarily in Shanghai and its surrounding region, known for its distinct phonology and limited mutual intelligibility with Mandarin.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.