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A Grammar of Colloquial Chinese, as Exhibited in the Shanghai Dialect

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The mandarin student will meet with scarcely any new idioms here. Of words, there are a few tens not used in the fashionable colloquial. It is in sounds that the greatest vari ation exists, and an attempt has therefore been made to form a correct nomenclature for tones, and for the alphabetic ele ments of spoken words. For the latter, Sir W. Jones' system.

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236 pages, Hardcover

First published August 8, 2015

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