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方言
Traditional Chinese
方言
Mandarin pinyin pronunciation
fāng yán
Cantonese jyutpin pronunciation
fong1 yin4
Short definition dialect
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Copyleft icon Adso icon Adso: dialect
Copyleft icon Cantofish icon Cantofish: sameadso
Copyleft icon MDBG icon MDBG: samecdic
Copyleft icon LDC icon LDC: dialect; creole; localism; patois; provincialism
Copyleft icon Cdict icon CDict: dialect'
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德伦特(dé lún tè) Drenthe
方言(fāng yán) dialect
(shì) is
低地(dī dì) lowland
撒克逊(sā kè xùn) Saxon (people)
地区(dì qū) local
(dedì) of
一个(yī gè) a
方言(fāng yán) dialect
(qún) crowd

Drents is a group of variants of the Low Saxon regional language.

那个(nà ge) also pr. nei4 ge5
语言学家(yǔ yán xué jiā) linguist
精通(jīng tōng) proficient
几个(jǐ ge) a few
中国(zhōng guó) China
方言(fāng yán) dialect

The linguist is fluent in several Chinese dialects.

汉语(hàn yǔ) Chinese language
方言(fāng yán) dialect
间的( jiān de)
发音(fā yīn) to emit sound
区别(qū bié) difference
很大(hěn dà) tremendous

There are great differences in pronunciation between different Chinese dialects.

(tā) another
(zuǐ) nozzle
(lǐ) village
一口(yī kǒu) a bite
方言(fāng yán) dialect

He speaks in a dialect.

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