Xinan Guanhua

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Xinan Guanhua is a major regional variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken across much of southwestern China, including provinces such as Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Jiaoliao Guanhua 1
Xinan Guanhua canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese dialect group
Sinitic language variety
regional variety of Mandarin Chinese
contrastWith Jianghuai Mandarin
Jin Chinese
Northern Mandarin
Wu Chinese
Yue Chinese
hasAlternativeName Southwestern Mandarin
surface form: Southwest Mandarin

Southwestern Mandarin
Southwestern Mandarin
surface form: Xinan Mandarin
hasGrammaticalFeature some unique aspect and modal markers
use of sentence-final particles distinct from Standard Mandarin
hasLexicalFeature loanwords and influences from local minority languages in some areas
many region-specific vocabulary items
hasMajorCenter Chengdu
Chongqing
hasPhonologicalFeature frequent use of erhua in some urban varieties
relatively few retroflex consonants compared to Northern Mandarin
tendency to merge retroflex and alveolar sibilants
tonal systems that differ from Beijing Mandarin
hasStatus major regional form of spoken Mandarin in China
hasSubvariety Chengdu–Chongqing dialect group
surface form: Chengdu-Chongqing dialect

Southwestern Mandarin
surface form: Guiyang dialect

Southwestern Mandarin
surface form: Kunming dialect

Northern Sichuan dialects
Southern Sichuan dialects
historicalDevelopment developed from earlier forms of Mandarin spreading into the southwest during imperial times
influencedBy migration from northern China during Ming and Qing dynasties
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages
mutualIntelligibility largely intelligible with Standard Mandarin for many speakers
region Sichuan Basin
upper Yangtze River region
surface form: Upper Yangtze River basin
spokenIn Chongqing
surface form: Chongqing Municipality

Guizhou Province
Sichuan Province
Southwest China
surface form: Southwestern China

Yunnan Province
parts of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
parts of Hubei Province
parts of Shaanxi Province
subclassOf Chinese language
Mandarin Chinese
usedBy Han Chinese population in southwestern China
usedInDomain daily communication
local media
popular culture in southwestern China
usesStandard Standard Chinese for formal writing
writingSystem Chinese characters

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Southwestern Mandarin alsoKnownAs Xinan Guanhua
Jiaoliao Mandarin hasAlternativeName Xinan Guanhua
this entity surface form: Jiaoliao Guanhua