Southwestern Mandarin

E35123

Chinese language variety Mandarin Chinese variety Sinitic language variety

Southwestern Mandarin is a major branch of Mandarin Chinese spoken across much of southwestern China, characterized by distinct phonological features and regional variations.

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All labels observed (14)

Label	Occurrences
Southwestern Mandarin canonical	50
Sichuanese Mandarin	6
Kunming dialect	4
Guiyang dialect	2
Southwest Mandarin	2
Upper Yangtze Mandarin	2
Chengdu dialect	1
Chongqing dialect	1
Leshan dialect	1
Mandarin Chinese	1
Southwestern Mandarin Chinese	1
Xinan Mandarin	1
Yichang dialect	1
西南官话	1

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Chinese language variety ⓘ Mandarin Chinese variety ⓘ Sinitic language variety ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Southwestern Mandarin ⓘ surface form: Southwest Mandarin Southwestern Mandarin ⓘ surface form: Upper Yangtze Mandarin Xinan Guanhua ⓘ Southwestern Mandarin ⓘ surface form: 西南官话
country	China ⓘ
hasDialect	Southwestern Mandarin self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Chengdu dialect Southwestern Mandarin self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Chongqing dialect Southwestern Mandarin self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Guiyang dialect Southwestern Mandarin self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Kunming dialect Southwestern Mandarin self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Leshan dialect Mianyang dialect ⓘ Panzhihua dialect ⓘ Southwestern Mandarin self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Yichang dialect
hasLexicalFeature	loanwords and influences from local minority languages in some regions ⓘ many regionally distinctive vocabulary items ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	distinct tone contours compared to Standard Mandarin ⓘ frequent merger of retroflex and alveolar sibilants ⓘ frequent realization of /n/ and /l/ as similar or merged in some subdialects ⓘ reduction or loss of the neutral tone in many areas ⓘ use of checked-tone reflexes from Middle Chinese entering tone in some areas ⓘ
historicalOrigin	spread of Mandarin during Ming dynasty ⓘ spread of Mandarin during Qing dynasty ⓘ
influencedBy	Bai language in some Yunnan areas ⓘ Yi languages in some regions ⓘ local Sichuanese dialects ⓘ
ISOClassification	included under Mandarin Chinese (cmn) ⓘ
languageBranch	Chinese language ⓘ surface form: Sinitic
languageFamily	Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
languageGroup	Mandarin ⓘ
linguisticStatus	major branch of Mandarin Chinese ⓘ
mutualIntelligibility	largely mutually intelligible with Standard Mandarin ⓘ not fully mutually intelligible with many non-Mandarin Chinese varieties ⓘ
population	one of the most widely spoken Mandarin subgroups ⓘ tens of millions of speakers ⓘ
region	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 Hunan Province ⓘ parts of Shaanxi Province ⓘ
standardBasedOn	Beijing dialect ⓘ surface form: Beijing Mandarin
subclassOf	Chinese ⓘ Mandarin Chinese ⓘ Sinitic languages ⓘ
usageDomain	everyday spoken communication ⓘ informal education and local commerce ⓘ local media in southwestern China ⓘ
writingSystem	Chinese characters ⓘ

Referenced by (74)

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

Hubei Province → hasDialect → Southwestern Mandarin ⓘ

Standard Chinese → basedOn → Southwestern Mandarin ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mandarin Chinese

Liuzhou, Guangxi, China → localLanguage → Southwestern Mandarin ⓘ

subject surface form: Liuzhou

Chengdu, Sichuan, China → language → Southwestern Mandarin ⓘ

subject surface form: Chengdu

this entity surface form: Sichuanese Mandarin

Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture → languageUsed → Southwestern Mandarin ⓘ

Southwestern Mandarin → alsoKnownAs → Southwestern Mandarin ⓘ

this entity surface form: Southwest Mandarin

Southwestern Mandarin → alsoKnownAs → Southwestern Mandarin ⓘ

this entity surface form: Upper Yangtze Mandarin

Southwestern Mandarin → alsoKnownAs → Southwestern Mandarin ⓘ

this entity surface form: 西南官话