Central Plains Mandarin

Central Plains Mandarin
Zhongyuan Guanhua
Region	Yellow River Plain
Native speakers	unknown (170 million cited 1982)^[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Chinese Mandarin Central Plains Mandarin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
ISO 639-6	`zgyu`
Linguist list	`cmn-zho`

Central Plains or Zhongyuan Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 中原官话; traditional Chinese: 中原官話; pinyin: zhōngyuán guānhuà) is a variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken in the central part of Shaanxi, Henan, and southern part of Shandong.^[2]

The archaic dialect of Peking opera is a form of Zhongyuan Mandarin.

Among Chinese Muslims, it is sometimes written in the Arabic alphabet.

Sub-dialects

Guanzhong dialect (关中话)
Henan dialect (河南话), Henan province
Luoyang dialect
Gangou dialect, Qinghai – influenced

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Central Plains Mandarin