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.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Mandarin Chinese	8
Northern Mandarin canonical	5
Mandarin dialect continuum	1
Northern Mandarin dialects	1
Northern Mandarin group	1

Statements (59)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Sinitic lect ⓘ group of Mandarin Chinese dialects ⓘ
contrastedWith	Min Chinese ⓘ Southern Mandarin ⓘ Wu Chinese ⓘ Yue Chinese ⓘ
formsBasisOf	Mandarin Chinese ⓘ surface form: Putonghua Standard Chinese ⓘ
hasGrammaticalFeature	SVO basic word order ⓘ topic-prominent syntax ⓘ use of aspect markers such as le, zhe, guo ⓘ
hasMajorVariety	Beijing dialect ⓘ surface form: Beijing Mandarin Chengdu–Chongqing dialect group ⓘ Jiaoliao Mandarin ⓘ surface form: Jiao–Liao Mandarin Jilu Mandarin ⓘ surface form: Ji–Lu Mandarin Southwestern Mandarin ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ Mandarin phonology ⓘ surface form: Standard Chinese phonology Standard Chinese vocabulary ⓘ
isLargestGroupOf	Mandarin Chinese dialects ⓘ
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith	most other Mandarin varieties ⓘ
languageBranch	Chinese language ⓘ surface form: Sinitic languages
languageFamily	Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
spokenIn	Beijing ⓘ Chongqing ⓘ surface form: Chongqing Municipality Gansu Province ⓘ Guizhou Province ⓘ Hebei ⓘ surface form: Hebei Province Heilongjiang ⓘ surface form: Heilongjiang Province Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region ⓘ surface form: Inner Mongolia Jilin Province ⓘ Liaoning ⓘ surface form: Liaoning Province Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region ⓘ North China Plain ⓘ Manchuria ⓘ surface form: Northeastern China North China ⓘ surface form: Northern China Qinghai ⓘ surface form: Qinghai Province Shaanxi Province ⓘ Shanxi Province ⓘ Sichuan Province ⓘ Southwest China ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ