Central Plains Mandarin
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| Central Plains Mandarin | |
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| Zhongyuan Guanhua | |
| Spoken in | Yellow River Plain |
| Total speakers | 170 million |
| Language family | Sino-Tibetan |
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Linguist List | cmn-zho |
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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 dialect of Mandarin Chinese spoken in the central part of Shaanxi, Henan, and southern part of Shandong.
The archaic dialect of Peking opera is a form of Zhongyuan Mandarin.
Among Chinese Muslims, it is sometimes written in the Arabic alphabet.
[edit] Sub-dialects
- Guanzhong dialect (关中话)
- Henan dialect (河南话) -- Henan province
- Luoyang dialect
- Dungan language
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