Karamay dialect
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| Karamay dialect | |
|---|---|
| 克拉玛依话/北疆话 | |
| Spoken in | Northern Xinjiang, China |
| Region | Northern Xinjiang, China; |
| Native speakers | ≤500,000 (date missing) |
| Language family |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Karamay dialect (simplified Chinese: 克拉玛依话; traditional Chinese: 克拉瑪依話) is a Beijing Mandarin dialect spoken in northern Xinjiang, China. It is also known as North Xinjiang Area dialect (Chinese: 北疆话, 北京官话北疆片), the regions of which include Karamay, Shihezi, Burqin County, Toli County, Hoboksar Mongol Autonomous County, Wenquan County in northern Xinjiang and a few other regions in the southern.[1] Karamay dialect is commonly referred to as a representative variant of the Beijing Mandarin dialect, while some linguists deny that because their survey concludes that the involved regions failed to form any variant form the Beijing Mandarin dialect .[2]
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