[lg policy] Linguist List Issue: Beijing Linguistic Committee Initiative to Preserve Old Beijing Chinese Dialect

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Message1: Beijing Linguistic Committee Initiative to Preserve Old Beijing Chinese Dialect
Date:30-Jul-2013
From:Brent Woo bwoo at linguistlist.org
LINGUIST List issue http://linguistlist.org/issues/24/24-3102.html 


The Beijing Linguistic Committee feels that the "pure old Beijing" dialect is dying out and has taskforces actively going out to record and document the dialect.

Read more: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/video/2013-07/30/c_132586969.htm 


Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)


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