Central Plains Mandarin

Central Plains Mandarin
Zhongyuan Guanhua
Region	Yellow River Plain
Native speakers	(170 million cited 1982)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Mandarin Central Plains Mandarin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
ISO 639-6	zgyu
Linguist list	cmn-zho
Glottolog	None huab1238  (Huabei Guanhua)[2]

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.^[3]

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

1. Gu 2009, p. 214.
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Huabei Guanhua". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. 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, Meaning and Universal Grammar, Studies in Language Companion Series, 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, Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World (1^st 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, Paris: Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale (37): 3–42, ISSN 0153-3320, OCLC 793454655, retrieved 20 November 2014