2000/10/01 by W. South Coblin · 4 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity #Multilingual Education and Policy
paper · doi:10.2307/606615
openalex publication_date 2000/10/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
The received view of standard Mandarin is that it has been Pekingese-based for at least six hundred years. Recent research, little known outside a small circle of specialists, has revealed that this view is flawed and that for most of its history this standard language had little to do with Pekingese. The present naner introduces these new developments to the academic community at large.