Lower Yangtze Mandarin (traditional Chinese: 下江官話; simplified Chinese: 下江官话; pinyin: Xiàjiāng Guānhuà) is one of the most divergent and least mutually-intelligible...

'northern speech'). Many varieties of Mandarin, such as those of the Southwest (including Sichuanese) and the Lower Yangtze, are not mutually intelligible with...

spoken within the province include Lower Yangtze Mandarin, Wu, Hui, Gan and small portion of Central Plains Mandarin. The name "Anhui" derives from the...

Southwestern Mandarin (Chinese: 西南官话; pinyin: Xīnán Guānhuà), also known as Upper Yangtze Mandarin (Chinese: 上江官话; pinyin: Shàngjiāng Guānhuà), is a Mandarin Chinese...

New Xiang with Southwestern Mandarin, Xuanzhou Wu Chinese with Lower Yangtze Mandarin, Jin with Central Plains Mandarin and certain divergent dialects...

(Chinese: 通泰), also known as Tai–Ru (Chinese: 泰如), is a group of Lower Yangtze Mandarin dialects spoken in the east-central part of Jiangsu province in...

Plains Mandarin, 中原官话, 中原官話 Lan-Yin Mandarin, 兰银官话, 蘭銀官話 Lower Yangtze Mandarin, 江淮官话, 江淮官話 Southwestern Mandarin, 西南官话, 西南官話 Jin Chinese, 晋语, 晉語 Wu Chinese...

grammar. They are still distinguished in Wu and Gan and some nearby Lower Yangtze Mandarin dialects such as the Yangzhou dialect, where they are pronounced...

coastline of over 1,000 kilometers (620 mi) along the Yellow Sea, and the Yangtze River passes through the southern part of the province. Since the Sui and...

across the Huai River to the Lower Yangtze Mandarin area and from there southeast to the Wu area and westwards along the Yangtze River valley and thence to...

across the Huai River to the Lower Yangtze Mandarin area and from there southeast to the Wu area and westwards along the Yangtze River valley and thence to...

between the Yangtze river (Jiang, 江) and the Huai river (淮) in central Anhui and central Jiangsu. The Lower Yangtze Mandarin or the Jianghuai Mandarin is distinctive...

singular language family. Huizhou Chinese was originally classified as Lower Yangtze Mandarin but it is currently classified separately from it. The Chinese Academy...

Chinese culinary traditions. Anhui cuisine consists of three styles: the Yangtze River region, Huai River region, and southern Anhui region. Anhui has ample...

standard Mandarin Chinese spoken throughout the country. The local dialect is often referred to as Zhangjiagang dialect or Lower Yangtze Mandarin. The vast...

Juai may refer to: Lower Yangtze Mandarin (ISO 639 language code juai) Juai, a fictional character from Detatoko Princess portrayed by Shiho Niiyama Juai...

The Yangtze Delta or Yangtze River Delta (YRD, Chinese: 长江三角洲 or simply 长三角), once known as the Shanghai Economic Zone, is a megalopolis generally comprising...

Cháng Jiāng (长江; 長江) or "Long River" is the official name for the Yangtze in Mandarin Chinese. However, the Chinese have given different names to the upstream...

Tōsō-on borrowings, however, reflect the reduction of final stops in Lower Yangtze Mandarin varieties to a glottal stop, reflected by Japanese /Q/. Middle Chinese...

the original texts, while adapting them to a Chinese audience. Lower Yangtze Mandarin formed the standard for written vernacular Chinese, until it was...

the post office recognized any specific dialect as standard. The Lower Yangtze Mandarin dialect spoken in Nanjing makes more phonetic distinctions than...

southeastern Anhui province, China. Sitting on the southeast bank of the Yangtze River, Wuhu borders Xuancheng to the southeast, Chizhou and Tongling to...

Traditional Chinese: 樅陽話; Pinyin: Zōngyánghuà) is a dialect of Lower Yangtze Mandarin spoken in Zongyang County of Anhui Province, China. "Zongyang"....

Lanyin Mandarin: Urumqi dialect, Yinchuan dialect Southwestern Mandarin: Chengdu dialect, Guiyang dialect, Liuzhou dialect, Wuhan dialect Lower Yangtze Mandarin:...

the Yangtze, long known poetically in China as simply "The River" (江, Jiāng). The local dialect is a form of Jianghuai or Lower Yangtze Mandarin. Similarly...

(Chinese: 扬州话; pinyin: Yángzhōu huà) of Chinese is representative of Lower Yangtze Mandarin, and is particularly close to the official language of the Ming...

Taiji Cave Zhenfeng Pagoda Culture Dialects Central Plains Mandarin Lower Yangtze Mandarin Taihu Wu dialects Xuanzhou Wu dialects Huizhou Chinese Gan...

eastern Hubei, which share the similar dialect of Xiajiang Mandarin (Lower Yangtze Mandarin). Peking opera's two main melodies, Xipi and Erhuang. Xipi...

studies support the Yangtze finless porpoise being a distinct species, or at least an incipient one, due to the lack of gene flow. In Mandarin Chinese, it is...

are located in the middle to lower reaches of the river. The Yangtze River, literally named "the Long River" in Mandarin, is considered to be the longest...