Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Wenzhounese (simplified Chinese: 温州话; traditional Chinese: 溫州話; pinyin: wēnzhōuhuà), also known as Oujiang (simplified Chinese: 瓯江话; traditional Chinese: 甌江話; pinyin: ōujiānghuà) or Dong'ou (東甌), is the speech of Wenzhou, the southern prefecture of Zhejiang Province, China. Nicknamed the \"Devil's Language\" for its complexity and difficulty, it is the most divergent division of Wu Chinese, and is sometimes considered a separate language. It features noticeable elements of Min, which borders it to the south. Oujiang is sometimes used as the broad umbrella term, reserving Wenzhou for Wenzhounese proper in sensu stricto.Wenzhou is not mutually intelligible with other varieties of Wu neighboring it to the north and west, nor with Min Dong to the south or with the official language of China, Mandarin.Due to its long history and the isolation of the region in which it is spoken, Wenzhounese is so unusual in its phonology that it has the reputation of being the least comprehensible dialect for an average Mandarin speaker. It preserves a large amount of vocabulary of classical Chinese lost elsewhere, earning itself the nickname \"the living fossil\", and has distinct grammatical differences from Mandarin.Wenzhounese speakers have been mistaken to be from Japan and Korea. Wenzhounese speakers who have studied Japanese and Korean note that there are words that sound like Japanese or Korean but have different meanings.Wenzhounese is one of five varieties of Chinese other than Standard Mandarin used for broadcasting by China Radio International, alongside Cantonese, Minnan, Teochew, and Hakka."@en }
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- Wenzhounese abstract "Wenzhounese (simplified Chinese: 温州话; traditional Chinese: 溫州話; pinyin: wēnzhōuhuà), also known as Oujiang (simplified Chinese: 瓯江话; traditional Chinese: 甌江話; pinyin: ōujiānghuà) or Dong'ou (東甌), is the speech of Wenzhou, the southern prefecture of Zhejiang Province, China. Nicknamed the \"Devil's Language\" for its complexity and difficulty, it is the most divergent division of Wu Chinese, and is sometimes considered a separate language. It features noticeable elements of Min, which borders it to the south. Oujiang is sometimes used as the broad umbrella term, reserving Wenzhou for Wenzhounese proper in sensu stricto.Wenzhou is not mutually intelligible with other varieties of Wu neighboring it to the north and west, nor with Min Dong to the south or with the official language of China, Mandarin.Due to its long history and the isolation of the region in which it is spoken, Wenzhounese is so unusual in its phonology that it has the reputation of being the least comprehensible dialect for an average Mandarin speaker. It preserves a large amount of vocabulary of classical Chinese lost elsewhere, earning itself the nickname \"the living fossil\", and has distinct grammatical differences from Mandarin.Wenzhounese speakers have been mistaken to be from Japan and Korea. Wenzhounese speakers who have studied Japanese and Korean note that there are words that sound like Japanese or Korean but have different meanings.Wenzhounese is one of five varieties of Chinese other than Standard Mandarin used for broadcasting by China Radio International, alongside Cantonese, Minnan, Teochew, and Hakka.".