Language Atlas of China

The Language Atlas of China (simplified Chinese: 中国语言地图集; traditional Chinese: 中國語言地圖集; pinyin: Zhōngguó yǔyán dìtú jí), published by Hong Kong Longman Publishing Company in two parts in 1987 and 1989, maps the distribution of both the varieties of Chinese and minority languages of China.

Language Atlas of China
AuthorStephen Adolphe Wurm, Rong Li, Theo Baumann, Mei W. Lee
PublisherLongman
Publication date
1987, 1989
ISBN978-962-359-085-3
OCLC431787427

It was a collaborative effort by the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, published simultaneously in the original Chinese and in English translation. Endymion Wilkinson rated this joint venture "outstanding".

A second edition was published by the Commercial Press in 2012.

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