Central Plains Mandarin
Central Plains Mandarin, or Zhongyuan Mandarin, 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 in Peking opera is a form of Zhongyuan Mandarin.
Among Hui people, Zhongyuan Mandarin is sometimes written with the Arabic alphabet, called Xiao'erjing.Subdialects
- Zheng-Cao region: e.g. Kaifeng dialect, Zhengzhou dialect, Nanyang dialect
- Luo-Xu region: e.g. Luoyang dialect, Xuzhou dialect
- Xin-Beng region: e.g. Xinyang dialect, Bengbu dialect
- Fenhe region: e.g. Linfen dialect, Wanrong dialect
- Cai-Lu region: e.g. Zhumadian dialect, Jining dialect
- Qin-Long region: e.g. Xining dialect, Dunhuang dialect, Gangou dialect
- Guanzhong region, e.g. Xi'an dialect
- Longzhong region: e.g. Tianshui dialect
- Nanjiang Region: e.g. Yanqi dialect, Tulufan dialect
- *Dungan language, written in Cyrillic, introduced many Russian loanwords, spoken mainly in Chu Valley and Fergana Valley in Central Asia
Phonology
In Central Plains Mandarin, some phonological changes have affected certain syllables but not Standard Chinese.
and have shifted to before the vowel.
Standard Mandarin's, and have shifted to before. has shifted to before.
| 豬 | 初 | 书 | 熟 |
| Middle Chinese Initial | | | | |
| Pinyin | zhū | chū | shū | shú |
| Standard Mandarin | | | | |
| Central Plains Mandarin | | | | |
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