Scholars usually classify Chinese dialects into seven divisions: Mandarin, Yue dialect, Wu dialect, Min dialect, Gan dialect, Xiang dialect and Beijing dialect.

( )refers to the linguistic variety characteristic of a particular social class, or ethnic group, or those based on age, gender and occupation. A: standard dialect B: Social dialect C: geographical dialect D: regional dialect

1. It's ____ to communicate with dialect here.

A siciolect is a __________ dialect referring to a particular social __________ .

Cantonese is the prestige variety of Yue dialect, and it is the medium of instruction.

Dialect refers to geographic variation, ...rms of social group.

10. tells where a person comes from, whereas __________ tells what he does. A: Dialect; register B: Style; genre C: Dialect; style D: Register; genre

3 .What do we learn about dialect coaches?

A dialect is a form of __________ peculiar to a group of people , as distinguished from the __________ of the whole people.

A phoneme in one language or one dialect may be an allophone in another language or dialect.