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
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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 ...
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Dialectology
References
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Linguists from China
Dialectologists
People from Jinhua
1961 births
Living people