Central Plains Mandarin
Appearance
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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 | Nonehuab1238 Huabei Guanhua |
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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 part of Shaanxi, Henan, and southern part of Shandong.[2]
The archaic dialect of Peking opera is a form of Zhongyuan Mandarin.
Among Chinese Muslims, it is sometimes written in the Arabic alphabet.
Subdialects
- Guanzhong dialect (关中话)
- Henan dialect (河南话), Henan province
- Luoyang dialect
- Gangou dialect, Qinghai – influenced by Monguor
- Dungan language, former USSR, Chu Valley, Fergana Valley, XUAR
- Xuzhou dialect, (徐州话)Xuzhou, north Jiangsu province
- Wanbei dialect, (皖北话)North Anhui province
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