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

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

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

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.