Beijing dialect

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The Beijing dialect is the Mandarin Chinese variety spoken in Beijing that forms the primary phonological and lexical basis of Standard Chinese.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese dialect
Mandarin Chinese variety
Sinitic language variety
alsoKnownAs Beijing Mandarin
Peking dialect
closelyRelatedTo Standard Mandarin
country China
differsFrom Standard Mandarin in degree of erhua
Standard Mandarin in slang usage
Standard Mandarin in vocabulary
formsBasisOf Modern Standard Mandarin lexicon
Modern Standard Mandarin phonology
Putonghua
Standard Chinese
hasFeature alveolo-palatal initials
distinct colloquial vocabulary
erhua
neutral tone
retroflex initials
rhotacization of finals
tone sandhi
weak syllables
hasLexicalBasisFor core vocabulary of Standard Chinese
hasPhonologicalBasisFor Putonghua finals
Putonghua initials
Putonghua tones
hasToneCategory dipping tone
falling tone
high level tone
rising tone
hasToneNumber 4 lexical tones
hasWritingSystem Chinese characters
historicalRole basis of Putonghua in the People’s Republic of China
basis of the national lingua franca in the Republic of China era
influences Northern Mandarin dialects
ISO639-3 none (covered under Mandarin Chinese cmn)
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages
region Northern China
spokenBy residents of urban Beijing
spokenIn Beijing
Beijing Municipality
standardizedAs basis for national standard pronunciation in China
subfamily Sinitic languages
subgroup Mandarin Chinese
usedIn Beijing opera (Peking opera) pronunciation
local media in Beijing
usesScript Simplified Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese characters

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