Central Plains Mandarin
Group of dialects of Mandarin Chinese
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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]
| 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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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").
Subdialects
- Zheng-Kai (郑开) region: e.g. Kaifeng (开封) dialect, Zhengzhou (郑州) dialect
- Luo-Song (洛嵩) region: e.g. Luoyang dialect (洛阳话)
- Nan-Lu (南阳) region: e.g. Nanyang (南阳) dialect
- Luo-Xiang (漯项) region: e.g. Zhumadian (驻马店) dialect
- Shang-Fu (商阜) region: e.g. Shangqiu (商丘) dialect, Fuyang (阜阳) dialect
- Xin-Beng (信蚌) region: e.g. Xinyang (信阳) dialect, Bengbu (蚌埠) dialect
- Yan-He (兖菏) region: e.g. Jining (济宁) dialect
- Xu-Huai (徐淮) region: e.g. Xuzhou dialect (徐州话)
- Fenhe (汾河) region: e.g. Linfen (临汾) dialect, Wanrong (万荣) dialect
- Guanzhong region (关中), e.g. Xi'an (西安) dialect
- Qin-Long (秦陇) region: e.g. Xining (西宁) dialect, Dunhuang (敦煌) dialect
- Longzhong (陇中) region: e.g. Tianshui (天水) dialect, Dingxi (定西) dialect[3]
- Hezhou (河州) Region: e.g. Gangou dialect (甘沟话) (influenced by Monguor)
- Nanjiang (南疆) Region: e.g. Yanqi dialect, Tulufan dialect
- Dungan language, written in Cyrillic, introduced many Russian loanwords, spoken mainly in Chu Valley and Fergana Valley in Central Asia
Phonology
In some varieties of Central Plains Mandarin, some phonological changes have affected certain syllables but not Standard Chinese.
Standard Mandarin's [t͡ʂ], [t͡ʂʰ] and have shifted to [p͜f] before [u]. [ʂ] has shifted to [f] before [u] in some varieties, such as the Yanhe subgroup and the Guanzhong subgroup.
The phenomenon of [p] and [pʰ] being shifted to [p͜f] before [u] and [o] can be found in Linyou (麟游) and Wugong (武功)[4]
See also
- Zhongyuan culture
- Central Plains (China), also called "Zhongyuan"