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Central Plains Mandarin
Central Plains Mandarin, 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 and southern parts of Shaanxi, Henan, southwestern part of Shanxi, southern part of Gansu, far southern part of Hebei, northern Anhui, northern parts of Jiangsu, southern Xinjiang and southern Shandong.
The archaic dialect in Peking opera is a form of Zhongyuan Mandarin.
Among Hui people, Zhongyuan Mandarin is sometimes written with the Arabic alphabet, called Xiao'erjing ("Children's script").
In some varieties of Central Plains Mandarin, some phonological changes have affected certain syllables but not Standard Chinese.
Standard Mandarin's [t͡ʂ], [t͡ʂʰ] and have shifted to [p͜f] before [u]. [ʂ] has shifted to [f] before [u] in some varieties, such as the Yanhe subgroup and the Guanzhong subgroup.
The phenomenon of [p] and [pʰ] being shifted to [p͜f] before [u] and [o] can be found in Linyou (麟游) and Wugong (武功)
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Central Plains Mandarin
Central Plains Mandarin, 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 and southern parts of Shaanxi, Henan, southwestern part of Shanxi, southern part of Gansu, far southern part of Hebei, northern Anhui, northern parts of Jiangsu, southern Xinjiang and southern Shandong.
The archaic dialect in Peking opera is a form of Zhongyuan Mandarin.
Among Hui people, Zhongyuan Mandarin is sometimes written with the Arabic alphabet, called Xiao'erjing ("Children's script").
In some varieties of Central Plains Mandarin, some phonological changes have affected certain syllables but not Standard Chinese.
Standard Mandarin's [t͡ʂ], [t͡ʂʰ] and have shifted to [p͜f] before [u]. [ʂ] has shifted to [f] before [u] in some varieties, such as the Yanhe subgroup and the Guanzhong subgroup.
The phenomenon of [p] and [pʰ] being shifted to [p͜f] before [u] and [o] can be found in Linyou (麟游) and Wugong (武功)
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