As the saying goes, ten miles are different in pronunciation, and hundreds of miles are different in customs. my country has a vast territory and vast territory. In the process of historical development, people in different regions have naturally unified and differentiated into many different accents. became a dialect.
▲ The distribution of dialects in my country
According to different pronunciation characteristics, the Chinese dialects in my country can be divided into seven dialect areas: northern dialect, Wu dialect, Hunan dialect, Gan dialect, Hakka dialect, Min dialect and Cantonese dialect.
The northern dialect can be further divided into four sub-dialect areas: North China, Northeast dialect, Northwest dialect, Southwest dialect and Jianghuai dialect.
Now we can basically understand 70-80% of the Henan dialect, Shaanxi dialect, Sichuan dialect, etc., because they belong to the northern dialect and have many similarities with the pronunciation of Mandarin.
The “Opinions on Implementing the Project of Inheriting and Developing Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture” issued in 2017 proposed in the “Key Tasks” section to “vigorously promote and standardize the use of the national common language and characters, and protect the inheritance of dialect culture.”
In recent years, with the support of relevant policies and the development of various dialect protection and inheritance activities, people have become more and more aware of the cultural and economic value of dialects.
In fact, many people are engaged in dialect-related work, such as voice actors in games and film and television dramas using dialects to make characters come alive.
▲The Chinese dialect dubbing of the operator “Ling” in “Tomorrow’s Ark”)
▲ The operator “Xi” in “Tomorrow’s Ark” has Wu dialect dubbing
▲ The operator “Nian” in “Tomorrow’s Ark” has a Southwestern Mandarin dub
Another example is that in order for artificial intelligence to understand dialects and even speak dialects, many language taggers are working hard every day.
▲ Xiaomi’s AI Xiao Ai can understand multiple dialects
▲ After update 5.0, Xiao Ai can speak Cantonese
Recently, Alipay’s “Sesame Work Permit” launched a proficiency test for Mandarin and dialects. Just open the Alipay app, search for “Sesame Work Permit” and click “Language Challenge” to test your Mandarin, Cantonese, Sichuan-Chongqing, and Northeastern dialects.
Before the test, you may wish to listen to the official reading demonstration, and then click the “Start Test” button at the bottom of the page to read and record. After reading aloud, click “Stop Test” and submit.
In addition to the Northeastern dialect, each test has two different paragraphs of text that can be read aloud. If you want to get a high score, you can swipe a few more times, swipe to the paragraph you think is easy to read, and then record.
After submitting the recording, the applet will evaluate the recording according to the “completeness”, “accuracy”, “fluency” of the recording, as well as “phonology (i.e. initials and finals)” and “tone type (i.e. tones, for example, Cantonese has nine tones and six tones)”. Evaluate.
After repeated attempts and drills, Mr. A finally achieved the result that he can take screenshots and send them to the circle of friends. At this time, he has basically practiced until he can recite the entire paragraph.
In fact, Sichuan-Chongqing dialect and Northeast dialect are both northern dialects, so even if you don’t speak Mandarin, you can try to imitate it on the basis of knowing Mandarin to feel the charm of the dialect.
▲ Forcibly achieve all-round excellence! But Cantonese is the everyday language
Although the reading demonstrators in the mini program are male and female, after testing, the gender of the tester has basically nothing to do with the test results. For example, if a friend is a man himself, he got 100 points for the first time with Zhen Huan.
However, there are still some imperfections in the current mini-program test, which has led to the emergence of Sichuan friends with only over 70 points, Northeast friends with only over 60 points, and even more tragic – no A qualified Guangdong friend.
Later, Mr. A successively found several native Cantonese dialect users for the test. Most of them scored low on the first reading. Some testers even thought that the fan reading of the Mini Program itself was not very good. precise.
Maybe it’s because the sample size of the program is too small, maybe it’s because just reading one or two very short passages can’t measure the true level, or because there are actually quite big differences in pronunciation even between the same dialect. The test results of the applet are for entertainment only and cannot be taken seriously.
▲ In reality, there are several areas in Sichuan dialect alone, and the pronunciation is also different.
Each dialect contains the history and culture of a specific region and group. When no one can understand this dialect, the culture contained in it will be lost. Today, the endangered problem of dialects is actually more than we think. be serious.
According to the criteria given by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, we can roughly judge the vitality level of our native dialect.
The life of a language is in the hands of those who use it, because the value of language lies more in being used than in archives or recorded on recording equipment. It is up to us to keep our native dialect alive. The efforts of every ordinary person.
At the end of the article, I sincerely invite everyone who is confident in their dialect level or imitation ability to post their scores in the comment area after completing the test to compete with everyone.
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