The alphabet shows some influence of traditional phonology, in particular including voiced stops and fricatives that most scholars believe had disappeared from Mandarin dialects by that time.
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It is comprehensible to speakers of other Mandarin dialects, though its greatest deviation from the others lies in its individual tones, and the lack of retroflex consonants.
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Indonesia has reportedly lifted a three-decade-old ban on speaking and teaching the Mandarin dialect of Chinese as part of an easing of discriminatory policies against ethnic Chinese.
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There are also phonological differences from Standard Mandarin, though it is not clear whether these are shared by local Mandarin dialects not so strongly influenced by minority languages.
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In such cases even syllables with the same GC spelling may have different tones in Beijing, though they remain homonyms in other Mandarin dialects, such as Xian and Sichuanese.
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Portraying a rural mother, Zhao Wei spoke the Lower Yangtze Mandarin dialect ( the predominant dialect in her hometown of Wuhu ) rather than Standard Mandarin in the film.
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People in Hubei speak Mandarin dialects; most of these dialects are classified as Southwestern Mandarin dialects, a group that also encompasses the Mandarin dialects of most of southwestern China.
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Earlier this month, the government lifted a three-decade-old ban on speaking and teaching the Mandarin dialect of Chinese as part of an easing of discriminatory policies against ethnic Chinese.
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The Chinese chararcter or ideograph for the word " horse, " or " ma " in the widely spoken Mandarin dialect, looks like a steed galloping at full speed.
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The Changs-- both of whom are now 47 years old and who speak to each other in the Mandarin dialect-- met as high school students in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
