{"id":10,"date":"2005-02-01T11:50:36","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T16:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/02\/01\/a-little-tidbit-on-the-sichuan-dialect"},"modified":"2005-02-01T11:50:36","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T16:50:36","slug":"a-little-tidbit-on-the-sichuan-dialect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/02\/01\/a-little-tidbit-on-the-sichuan-dialect\/","title":{"rendered":"A little tidbit on the Sichuan dialect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a474'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n <em><br \/>\n  I learned that the dialect spoken in Sichuan is a member of the northern<br \/>\n guanhua dialect family, which is to say that it&#8217;s relatively close to Mandarin.<br \/>\n <br \/>\n As I lay on the hard-sleeper bunk on the train to Sichuan, straining to<br \/>\n follow the conversations of the Sichuanese around me from the one word out<br \/>\n of every three that I could catch, I began to suspect that on this point&#8230;<br \/>\n <\/em>\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bokane.org\/archives\/2005\/01\/chengdu_1.html\">Read it yourself<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned that the dialect spoken in Sichuan is a member of the northern guanhua dialect family, which is to say that it&#8217;s relatively close to Mandarin. As I lay on the hard-sleeper bunk on the train to Sichuan, straining to follow the conversations of the Sichuanese around me from the one word out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}