Central Plains Mandarin
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 |
huab1238 Central Plain Guanhua[2]zhon1236 Zhongyuan[3] |
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.[4]
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-Cao region: e.g. Kaifeng dialect, Zhengzhou dialect, Nanyang dialect
- Luo-Xu region: e.g. Luoyang dialect, Xuzhou dialect
- Xin-Beng(信蚌) region: e.g. Xinyang dialect, Bengbu dialect
- Fenhe(汾河) region: e.g. Linfen dialect, Wanrong dialect
- Cai-Lu region: e.g. Zhumadian dialect, Jining dialect
- Qin-Long(秦陇) region: e.g. Xining dialect, Dunhuang dialect, Gangou dialect (influenced by Monguor)
- Guanzhong region (关中话), e.g. Xi'an dialect
- Longzhong(陇中) region: e.g. Tianshui dialect
- 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
See also
References
Citations
- ↑ Gu 2009, p. 214.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Central Plain Guanhua". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Zhongyuan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ 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 (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, Paris: Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale (37): 3–42, ISSN 0153-3320, OCLC 793454655, retrieved 20 November 2014
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