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Shanghainese Translation Services
Shanghainese Translator in Shanghai and Los Angeles
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Shanghainese Translation
We are one of the few companies that provide Shanghainese
translation services with our Shanghainese translators and
interpreters. Our Shanghainese translators and
interpreters are located in Shanghai, China, and Los Angeles,
California.Please contact us for more information.
General Information about Shanghainese Language
Shanghainese, or the Shanghai dialect is a dialect spoken in
the city of Shanghai and the surrounding regions. It is
classified as part of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages.
Shanghainese is largely not mutually intelligible with other
Chinese dialects such as Standard Mandarin.
With nearly 14 million speakers, Shanghainese once served as
the regional lingua franca of the entire Yangtze River Delta
region.
After 1949, the Chinese government introduced Standard
Mandarin as the national language of all China. The influence of
Shanghainese began to wane. Especially since China's economic
reforms began in 1978, Shanghai became home to a great number of
migrants from all over the country. Because of the national
prominence of Standard Mandarin, learning Shanghainese was no
longer necessary for migrants, because those educated after the
1950s were generally fluent in Mandarin to some degree. However,
Shanghainese remained a very important part of the city's
culture, and retained its prestige status within the local
population. In the 1990s, it was still common for some local
radio and television broadcasts to be carried out in
Shanghainese.
Owing to fears of regionalism, however, Shanghainese
programming were gradually stamped out. Education in
Shanghainese was forbidden, with teachers enforcing a ban on
speaking Shanghainese in primary and secondary schools. In
addition, Shanghai's new status as a cosmopolitan global city
further consolidated the status of Mandarin as the standard
language in which to conduct business and services.
Shanghai's main TV and radio stations now broadcast almost
exclusively in Mandarin.
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