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What languages did old Beijing speak?

What languages did old Beijing speak?

Published on: 2026-04-08

Source: Moscow Government – Government of Moscow –

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A lecture on the formation of the Beijing dialect and its role in the formation of Putonghua — the official language of China — will be held at the Moscow Museum.

Listeners learn about the influence of the Manchu language, about the pronunciation norm of old Beijing at the end of the 19th — beginning of the 20th century, and about how from the urban multilingualism a language system was born for one and a half billion Chinese.

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