Central Plains Mandarin
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| Central Plains Mandarin | |
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| Zhongyuan Guanhua | |
| Region | Yellow River Plain |
Native speakers | (170 million cited 1982)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| ISO 639-6 | zgyu |
cmn-zho | |
| Glottolog | huab1238 Central Plain Guanhuazhon1236 Zhongyuan |
| Linguasphere | 79-AAA-bf |
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Central Plains or Zhongyuan Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 中原官话; traditional Chinese: 中原官話; pinyin: zhōngyuán guānhuà) is a variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken in the central and southern parts of Shaanxi, Henan, southwestern part of Shanxi, southern part of Gansu, far southern part of Hebei, northern Anhui, northern parts of Jiangsu, southern Xinjiang and southern Shandong.[2]
The archaic dialect of Peking opera is a form of Zhongyuan Mandarin.
Among Hui people, Zhonyuan Mandarin is sometimes written with Arabic alphabets, called Children's script.
Subdialects
- Zhengcao region: e.g. Kaifeng dialect, Zhengzhou dialect, Nanyang dialect
- Luoxu region: e.g. Luoyang dialect, Xuzhou dialect
- Xinbeng region: e.g. Xinyang dialect, Bengbu dialect.
- Fenhe region: e.g. Linfen dialect, Wanrong dialect
- Cailu region: e.g. Zhumadian dialect, Jining dialect
- Qinlong region: e.g. Xining dialect, Dunhuang dialect，Gangou dialect (influenced by Monguor)
- Guanzhong region (关中话), e.g. Xi'an dialect
- Longzhong region: e.g. Tianshui dialect
- Nanjiang Region: e.g. Yanqi dialect, Tulufan dialect
- Dungan language, introduced many Russian language borrowing words, spoken mainly in Chu Valley and Fergana Valley in Central Asia.
References
Citations
- ^ Gu 2009, p. 214.
- ^ Chappell 2002, p. 244; Gu 2009, p. 214; Chirkova 2008.
Sources
- Chappell, Hilary (2002), "The Universal Syntax of Semantic Primes in Mandarin Chinese", in Goddard, Cliff; Wierzbicka, Anna (eds.), Meaning and Universal Grammar, Studies in Language Companion Series, vol. v. 60, Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins, ISBN 1588112659, ISSN 0165-7763, OCLC 752499720, retrieved 17 November 2014
- Gu, Yueguo (2009) [2006], "Chinese", in Brown, Keith; Ogilvie, Sarah (eds.), Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World (1st ed.), Oxford: Elsevier, ISBN 9780080877747, OCLC 264358379, retrieved 17 November 2014
- Chirkova, Ekaterina (2008), "Gˇei 'give' in Beijing and beyond" (PDF), Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale (37), Paris: Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale: 3–42, ISSN 0153-3320, OCLC 793454655, retrieved 20 November 2014
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