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Central Plains Mandarin
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| Central Plains Mandarin | |
|---|---|
| 中原官话 Zhongyuan Guanhua | |
| Region | Yellow River Plain |
Native speakers | (170 million cited 1982)[1] |
| Chinese characters, Xiao'erjing (historical) | |
| 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 Mandarin, 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 in Peking opera is a form of Zhongyuan Mandarin.
Among Hui people, Zhongyuan Mandarin is sometimes written with the Arabic alphabet, called Xiao'erjing ("Children's script").
- ^ Gu 2009, p. 214.
- ^ Chappell 2002, p. 244; Gu 2009, p. 214; Chirkova 2008.
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