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Central Plains Mandarin

Central Plains Mandarin
Zhongyuan Guanhua
Region Yellow River Plain
Native speakers
(170 million cited 1982)
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3
ISO 639-6 zgyu
Linguist list
cmn-zho
Glottolog None
huab1238  (Huabei Guanhua)
Linguasphere 79-AAA-bf
Mandarín zhongyuan.png

Central Plains 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.

The archaic dialect of Peking opera is a form of Zhongyuan Mandarin.

Among Chinese Muslims, it is sometimes written in the Arabic alphabet.



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