mandarin dialect in a sentence

Examples

1. The alphabet shows some influence of traditional phonology, in particular including voiced stops and fricatives that most scholars believe had disappeared from Mandarin dialects by that time.
2. It is comprehensible to speakers of other Mandarin dialects, though its greatest deviation from the others lies in its individual tones, and the lack of retroflex consonants.
3. Indonesia has reportedly lifted a three-decade-old ban on speaking and teaching the Mandarin dialect of Chinese as part of an easing of discriminatory policies against ethnic Chinese.
4. There are also phonological differences from Standard Mandarin, though it is not clear whether these are shared by local Mandarin dialects not so strongly influenced by minority languages.
5. In such cases even syllables with the same GC spelling may have different tones in Beijing, though they remain homonyms in other Mandarin dialects, such as Xian and Sichuanese.
6. Portraying a rural mother, Zhao Wei spoke the Lower Yangtze Mandarin dialect ( the predominant dialect in her hometown of Wuhu ) rather than Standard Mandarin in the film.
7. People in Hubei speak Mandarin dialects; most of these dialects are classified as Southwestern Mandarin dialects, a group that also encompasses the Mandarin dialects of most of southwestern China.
8. Earlier this month, the government lifted a three-decade-old ban on speaking and teaching the Mandarin dialect of Chinese as part of an easing of discriminatory policies against ethnic Chinese.
9. The Chinese chararcter or ideograph for the word " horse, " or " ma " in the widely spoken Mandarin dialect, looks like a steed galloping at full speed.
10. The Changs-- both of whom are now 47 years old and who speak to each other in the Mandarin dialect-- met as high school students in Sao Paulo, Brazil.