Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Shanghainese

There is lots of dialects in China like Mandarin, Taiwanese, Cantonese, Fu Zhou and Shanghainese.
I am going to talk about Shanghainese.


Shanghainese has been around for 700 years. There is now even different types of Shanghainese



and in most dialects there are four tones, in Shanghainese there is 7. It is mostly spoken in Shanghai. In 2013 23.9 million people spoke Shanghainese and in July 2014 the population was 1,355,692,576. That's a lot of people. Shanghainese and Mandarin are very close some words are still the same, though Shanghai still has books, drama, folk songs, poems, riddles, tongue twisters, The News, and TV shows, so do we. The difference between Mandarin, English and Shanghainese is:




There is lots more differences but I would like to talk about these ones. When I say China doesn't have as much detail as New Zealand, you probably don't know what I mean. Well I mean when I say"him, he" in Chinese it is the same words. Do you know a Chinese person who speaks a little of English, and how many native English people do you know? Compare. Comment down below of your answer.

I hope you learnt a little about the Shanghai language. Here are some facts about Shanghai.
Shanghai people are trying to inherit their culture.
There is a building like the sky tower called the TV tower, which is 468 Metres tall and it was built in 1994.
It is the largest city in China.
Shanghai was originally a small fishing village with little hope of advancing past its swampy origins.
Shanghai means 'on top of the sea'



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