Chinese dialects

Hey Gubukjanggoon,

    I think it's safe to say that all Chinese dialects (Manchurian, Mongolian, and some other excluded) are all Sino-Tibetan language family.  At least that's what I remembered from class.  The common writing system help the different dialects in conforming to each other to a large extent.

Peace,

Michael

9-2-2004

Well, define the word Chinese XD

Actually there are languages other than Manchurian, Mongolian and Uyghur that does not share the same writting with the Han chinese.  Especially alone the southeast border.

Originally posted by Gubukjanggoon   I've heard recently rumors that Woo (shanghainese) might actually be Altaic!

Hi Gubuk where did u hear these rumors from?Being a native speaker of Woo,I find this claime to be interesting.

The Miao, Yi, Yue are all over the south not just the southeast, Yunnan has the most ethnic minorities.

Very posible.

There is a big problem while discussing Asian histories.  That is the name of Wu or any name for that matter maybe used to generalize people who lives in that area, even after the original people.

Such as the Koguryo issue, where the Dong-Yi or Yi in ancient times and later in Chou dynasty, Han dynasty and dynasties after that can refer to totally different people.

In this case, it is obvious to me that they are referring to Wu people of the �K�� (Chuen-Chuo) era.  Judging my their language, it is probably true they are Altaic.  However, Wu is used to refer to people of that area.  That causes serious confusions.... and argument where not needed.