Pinghua language

E702459

Pinghua language is a group of Sinitic (Chinese) dialects spoken primarily in parts of Guangxi and neighboring regions in southern China, often considered distinct from both Mandarin and Cantonese.

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Label Occurrences
Pinghua language canonical 1

Statements (74)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese language variety
Sinitic language
language group
hasAlternativeName Ping Chinese NERFINISHED
Pinghua NERFINISHED
Pinghua Chinese NERFINISHED
hasDialect Guilin Pinghua NERFINISHED
Liuzhou Pinghua
Nanning Pinghua
Northern Pinghua NERFINISHED
Southern Pinghua NERFINISHED
Yongxiu Pinghua NERFINISHED
hasEthnicGroup Han Chinese NERFINISHED
Miao people (as second language)
Yao people (as second language)
Zhuang people (as second language)
hasGlottocode ping1244
hasHistoricalOrigin developed from earlier Chinese varieties in Guangxi region
hasInfluenceFrom Southwestern Mandarin NERFINISHED
Yao languages NERFINISHED
Yue Chinese NERFINISHED
Zhuang languages NERFINISHED
hasISOCode none (no individual ISO 639-3 code for the group as a whole)
hasLanguageAgency Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (classification studies) NERFINISHED
hasLanguageBranch Sinitic
hasLanguageFamily Sino-Tibetan NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticFeature lexical items distinct from both Mandarin and Cantonese
regional variation between northern and southern varieties
shares features with Southwestern Mandarin
shares features with Yue Chinese
hasPhonologicalFeature checked tones in some dialects
tone language
voiced obstruent reflexes in some dialects
hasRegion Cangwu County NERFINISHED
Guangdong Province NERFINISHED
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region NERFINISHED
Guilin NERFINISHED
Guiping NERFINISHED
Guizhou Province NERFINISHED
Hechi NERFINISHED
Hunan Province NERFINISHED
Laibin NERFINISHED
Liuzhou NERFINISHED
Nanning NERFINISHED
Pingnan County NERFINISHED
Teng County NERFINISHED
Wuzhou NERFINISHED
Yunnan Province NERFINISHED
parts of central Guangxi
parts of eastern Guangxi
parts of western Guangxi
southern China NERFINISHED
hasResearchField Chinese dialectology
historical linguistics
sociolinguistics
hasScriptType logographic
hasSociolinguisticStatus often classified as a separate group from both Mandarin and Cantonese in Chinese dialectology
sometimes grouped with Yue in older classifications
hasStandardForm no fully standardized written form specific to Pinghua
hasStatus regional language in China
hasUsage spoken in daily communication
used in local media in some areas
hasWritingSystem Chinese characters NERFINISHED
isDistinctFrom Cantonese NERFINISHED
Gan Chinese NERFINISHED
Hakka Chinese NERFINISHED
Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED
Wu Chinese NERFINISHED
Xiang Chinese NERFINISHED
Yue Chinese NERFINISHED
isPartOf Sino-Tibetan language family NERFINISHED
spokenInCountry China NERFINISHED
subclassOf Chinese
Sinitic NERFINISHED

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Pinghua hasAlternativeName Pinghua language