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Northern Mandarin

E62010

Sinitic lect group of Mandarin Chinese dialects

Northern Mandarin is the largest and most influential group of Mandarin Chinese dialects, forming the basis for Standard Chinese and widely spoken across northern and southwestern China.

Aliases (3)

Statements (59)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Sinitic lect → group of Mandarin Chinese dialects →
contrastedWith	Min Chinese → Southern Mandarin → Wu Chinese → Yue Chinese →
formsBasisOf	Putonghua → Standard Chinese →
hasGrammaticalFeature	SVO basic word order → topic-prominent syntax → use of aspect markers such as le, zhe, guo →
hasMajorVariety	Beijing Mandarin → Chengdu–Chongqing dialect group → Jiao–Liao Mandarin → Ji–Lu Mandarin → Kunming dialect → Lan–Yin Mandarin → Northeastern Mandarin → Southwestern Mandarin →
hasNumberOfSpeakers	hundreds of millions of speakers →
hasPhonologicalFeature	erhua (rhotic suffix) in many dialects → four lexical tones in most varieties → neutral tone in unstressed syllables → relatively simple syllable structure → retroflex initials in many dialects →
hasStandardBasedOn	Beijing dialect →
influenced	Standard Chinese grammar → Standard Chinese phonology → Standard Chinese vocabulary →
isLargestGroupOf	Mandarin Chinese dialects →
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith	most other Mandarin varieties →
languageBranch	Sinitic languages →
languageFamily	Sino-Tibetan languages →
spokenIn	Beijing → Chongqing Municipality → Gansu Province → Guizhou Province → Hebei Province → Heilongjiang Province → Inner Mongolia → Jilin Province → Liaoning Province → Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region → North China Plain → Northeastern China → Northern China → Qinghai Province → Shaanxi Province → Shanxi Province → Sichuan Province → Southwestern China → Tianjin → Yunnan Province → parts of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region → parts of Hubei Province → parts of Hunan Province →
subclassOf	Chinese language variety → Mandarin Chinese →
writingSystem	Chinese characters →

Referenced by (11)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Eastern China ("Mandarin Chinese") → Hefei ("Mandarin Chinese") → Shenyang ("Mandarin Chinese") → Shenzhen ("Mandarin Chinese") →	language
Jing Tian ("Mandarin Chinese") → Steve Chen ("Mandarin Chinese") →	languageSpoken
North China →	dominantDialectGroup
Beijing dialect ("Northern Mandarin dialects") →	influences
Voice of America ("Mandarin Chinese") →	languageOfWorkOrName
Chinese Americans ("Mandarin Chinese") →	languageUsed
Jianghuai Mandarin ("Mandarin dialect continuum") →	partOf