Beijing Mandarin
| Beijing dialect | |
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| Pekingese | |
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北京話 Běijīnghuà |
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| Region |
Beijing urban districts Overseas, in the United States (New York City) |
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Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| ISO 639-6 | bjjg |
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Linguist list
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cmn-bej |
| Glottolog |
Nonehuab1238 (Huabei Guanhua)
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| Linguasphere | 79-AAA-bb |
The Beijing dialect (simplified Chinese: 北京话; traditional Chinese: 北京話; pinyin: Běijīnghuà), also known as Pekingese, is the dialect of Mandarin spoken in the urban area of Beijing, China. It is the phonological basis of Standard Chinese, which is the official language in the People's Republic of China and Republic of China and one of the official languages in Singapore.
Although the Beijing dialect and Standard Chinese are similar, various differences generally make clear to Chinese speakers whether an individual is a native of Beijing speaking the local Beijing variant or is an individual speaking Standard Chinese.
In the classification used by the Language Atlas of China, the Beijing dialect is included in a dialect group called Beijing Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 北京官话; traditional Chinese: 北京官話; pinyin: Běijīng Guānhuà), distinguished from other Mandarin subgroups by the tonal reflexes of syllables that had Middle Chinese stop codas (the so-called entering tone category). Beijing Mandarin is divided into four subgroups:
Dungan language speakers like Iasyr Shivaza and others have reported that Chinese who speak Beijing dialect can understand Dungan, but Dungans could not understand the Beijing Mandarin.
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