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Cao Zhiyun (), born in
Jinhua , alternately romanized as Kinhwa, is a prefecture-level city in central Zhejiang province in eastern China. It borders the provincial capital of Hangzhou to the northwest, Quzhou to the southwest, Lishui to the south, Taizhou to the eas ...
, Zhejiang in 1961 is a Chinese linguist and dialectologist who is a professor at Beijing Language and Culture University.


Career

He is best known for his work as the primary editor of the groundbreaking 2008 ''
Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects The ''Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects'' (), edited by Cao Zhiyun and published in 2008 in three volumes, is a dialect atlas documenting the geography of varieties of Chinese. Unlike the ''Language Atlas of China'' (1987), which aims to map th ...
'' but has made numerous other significant contributions to Chinese dialectology, with a focus on the Southern Wu varieties in and around his native
Jinhua , alternately romanized as Kinhwa, is a prefecture-level city in central Zhejiang province in eastern China. It borders the provincial capital of Hangzhou to the northwest, Quzhou to the southwest, Lishui to the south, Taizhou to the eas ...
. Despite his focus, his works exhibit an all around thorough and in-depth understanding of all Chinese dialect families and contemporary linguistics and is widely regarded in the field as one of China's leading authorities on Chinese dialectology.


See also

*
Wu Chinese The Wu languages (; Wu romanization and IPA: ''wu6 gniu6'' [] ( Shanghainese), ''ng2 gniu6'' [] (Suzhounese), Mandarin pinyin and IPA: ''Wúyǔ'' []) is a major group of Sinitic languages spoken primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Zhejiang Provi ...
* Dialectology


References

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