To prevent such a regionalization, unifying measures such as teaching Mandarin (a northern based dialect), so all dialects or 'hua's' of China can speak with each other, as well as spreading the majority Han ethnic group throughout China to homogenize identity, and equate Han to Chinese are such tactics.
Post-Classical Chinese, based on dialects very similar to the language now spoken in North China, probably owes its origin to the Buddhist storytelling tradition; the tales appeared in translations from Sanskrit during the Tang dynasty (618 907).
The literary form received a broad dialect base, facilitating its use as a national language.
Although Italian has a standard literary form, based on the dialect of Florence, the common speech is dialectal or a local variant of Standard Italian.
The earliest literary tradition had a Western Yiddish dialectal base; writing in this literary dialect continued into the Modern Yiddish period long after the major population centres had shifted to the east.
One can compare the conceptual space based on languages of the world in Haspelmath (2003) and the one based on Xiang dialect in China in Zhang 张敏 (2010).
Western Armenian (formerly known as "Armenian of Turkey") was based on the dialect of the Armenian community of Istanbul, and Eastern Armenian (formerly known as "Armenian of Russia") was based on the dialects of Yerevan Armeniaandand Tbilisi (Georgia).
The background colors are based on the dialect regions from the Atlas of North American English.
While we're hopping mad, turn to another recent statement of President Clinton that in its expression of irritation touches three dialect bases.
Standard Japanese, based on the dialect spoken in Tokyo, was established in the late 19th century through the creation of a national educational system and through more widespread communication.
