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    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...
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    Guānhuà. Linguists use the term "Mandarin" to refer to the diverse group of dialects spoken in northern and southwestern China, which Chinese linguists...
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    and others. Inhabitants of Southwestern China primarily speak a dialect of Mandarin Chinese known as Southwestern Mandarin. This variant uses the same...
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    and parts of northern Thailand, Southwestern Mandarin speakers take up the most area and population of all Mandarinic language groups, and would be the...
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    Sichuanese/Szechwanese Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 四川官话; traditional Chinese: 四川官話; pinyin: Sìchuān Guānhuà), is a branch of Southwestern Mandarin spoken mainly...
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    including New Xiang with Southwestern Mandarin, Xuanzhou Wu Chinese with Lower Yangtze Mandarin, Jin with Central Plains Mandarin and certain divergent dialects...
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    though the Southwestern Mandarin of Chengdu is intelligible to speakers of Standard Chinese, other local variants of Southwestern Mandarin may not be...
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    within Mandarin. In Lower Yangtze varieties, the initial /n-/ has merged with /l-/. These initials have also merged in Southwestern Mandarin, but as...
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    pronunciation: [tsʰən˨˩y˨˩]) is the most widely used branch of Southwestern Mandarin, with about 90 million speakers. It is named after Chengdu, the...
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    northeastern China such as the Manchus. Major languages in East Asia include Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Major ethnic groups of East Asia include...
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    from Chinese. The main language spoken in Guizhou is Southwestern Mandarin, a variety of Mandarin. The area was first organized as an administrative region...
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    Sinitic: Tianjinnese, a Central Mandarin variety surrounded by Northern varieties Ganzhounese, a Southwestern Mandarin variety surrounded by Hakka in southern...
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    spoken in northeastern areas of Hunan, China adjacent to areas where Southwestern Mandarin and Gan are spoken. Under their influence, it has lost some of the...
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    Xiang Chinese (category Pages with Mandarin IPA)
    Old Xiang. Norman describes the boundary between New Xiang and Southwestern Mandarin as one of the weakest in China, with considerable similarities between...
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    Hunan (category Pages with Mandarin IPA)
    population. Varieties of Chinese spoken include Xiang, Gan and Southwestern Mandarin. Wulingyuan was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992...
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    胶辽官话, 膠遼官話 Zhongyuan Mandarin, 中原官话, 中原官話 Lanyin 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...
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    ethnic minorities. Mandarin Chinese is the main spoken language in Shaanxi, including Zhongyuan Mandarin and Southwestern Mandarin dialects; another variety...
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    Besides English and Turkish, she also learned Burmese, Thai and Southwestern Mandarin for her performances as Sino-Burmese characters in several Midi...
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    population. The other half is almost equally divided between the Southwestern Mandarin, Hakka, and Pinghua; there is also a considerable Xiang-speaking...
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    portions. Of these, the main subgroups are those that speak Yue and Southwestern Mandarin varieties of Chinese. Qinzhou and Goulou Yue are spoken in the southern...
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    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...
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  • Kunming dialect (category Mandarin Chinese)
    昆明话; traditional Chinese: 昆明話; pinyin: Kūnmínghuà) is a dialect of Southwestern Mandarin Chinese. Luo Changpei describes it as having "simple phonemes, elegant...
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    originally from Yunnan, a southern province of China. They speak Southwestern Mandarin. Generally, the Chin Haw can be divided into three groups, according...
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  • (16 km) away from Nansan (Chinese characters: 南傘), China. In Laukkai, Southwestern Mandarin and Chinese characters are widely used, and the Chinese renminbi...
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  • Standard Chinese has historically derived from the Beijing dialect of Mandarin. However, pronunciation varies widely among speakers, who may introduce...
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    Taiwanese Mandarin, frequently referred to as Guoyu (Chinese: 國語; pinyin: Guóyǔ; lit. 'National language') or Huayu (華語; Huáyǔ; 'Mandarin language'),...
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    languages such as Lolo-Burmese, Karenic, Mienic, Mienic, Palaungic, Southwestern Mandarin. There was no population survey in 2020 due to COVID-19. Ethnic...
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    customs and culture Zhuang people Varieties of Chinese Yue Chinese Southwestern Mandarin Pinghua Zhuang languages Mienic languages Cuisine Cantonese cuisine...
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    encompassing parts of Yunnan, Guizhou and neighboring regions which speak Southwestern Mandarin. Historically centered around the Yangtze River, it emerged as an...
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    Mandarin dialects spoken across northern and southwestern China. In China, from 605 to 1905, mandarins were selected by merit through the extremely rigorous...
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