{"id":843,"date":"2008-11-21T21:10:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T02:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=843"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:38:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:38:15","slug":"how-do-you-say-that-in-changsha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2008\/11\/how-do-you-say-that-in-changsha\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you say that in Changsha?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found a couple of cool language tools. Both are hosted by the Russian site Tower of Babel, which appears to be run by some serious linguists who have complied a huge number of etymologies.<\/p>\n<p>One site will give you the pronuciation of Chinese words in any of the <a href=\"http:\/\/starling.rinet.ru\/cgi-bin\/query.cgi?basename=datachinabigchina&amp;root=config&amp;morpho=0\">archaic pronuciations<\/a>. Want to know how to pronounce a word in Eastern Han Chinese, or what the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shuowen_Jiezi\">Shuowen<\/a> gloss is, this site is for you. It only has about 4000 entries, but a lot of the basic words seem to be there.<\/p>\n<p>They also have a <a href=\"http:\/\/starling.rinet.ru\/cgi-bin\/query.cgi?root=config&amp;morpho=0&amp;basename=datachinadoc\">dialect <\/a>version, so if you want to know how to say something in Fuzhou or Jinan dialect this is the place to go.<\/p>\n<p>For both of these you need to know the wierd linguist romanizations, [UPDATE I think it is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Phonetic_Alphabet\">IPA<\/a>] and I&#8217;m not sure I have any practical uses for this, but it is still pretty cool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a couple of cool language tools. Both are hosted by the Russian site Tower of Babel, which appears to be run by some serious linguists who have complied a huge number of etymologies. One site will give you the pronuciation of Chinese words in any of the archaic pronuciations. Want to know how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,119,137,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-english","category-language","category-web-sites-and-resources"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-dB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4757,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/4757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}