Wuming Mandarin or Wuming Guanhua (), known locally as Wuminghua (), is a dialect of
Southwestern Mandarin
Southwestern Mandarin (), also known as Upper Yangtze Mandarin (), is a Mandarin Chinese language spoken in much of Southwest China, including in Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Guizhou, most parts of Hubei, the northwestern part of Hunan, the northe ...
spoken in urban
Wuming District
Wuming District (; Standard Zhuang: ) is one of 7 districts of the prefecture-level city of Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, South China. The district was approved to build from the dissolution of the former ''Wuming County ...
, specifically in the towns of Chengxiang and Fucheng. It is a variety that has been influenced substantially by
Zhuang, which is the majority language of the district.
Classification
Wuming Mandarin is classified as a part of the Gui–Liu subgroup () of
Southwestern Mandarin
Southwestern Mandarin (), also known as Upper Yangtze Mandarin (), is a Mandarin Chinese language spoken in much of Southwest China, including in Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Guizhou, most parts of Hubei, the northwestern part of Hunan, the northe ...
. The second edition of the ''
Language Atlas of China
The ''Language Atlas of China'' (), published in two parts in 1987 and 1989, maps the distribution of both the varieties of Chinese and minority languages of China.
It was a collaborative effort by the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the ...
'' further classifies it as part of the Guinan (southern
Guangxi
Guangxi (; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the People's Republic ...
) cluster ().
Phonology
Initials
There are 18 phonemic initials (including the
zero initial
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants). Syllables are often considered the phonological "b ...
):
Rimes
There are seventy (70) rimes.
Tones
There are seven tones, six of which are native:
The other tone, (35), is non-native, occurs in very few words, and corresponds to the yin level () tone in
Pinghua
Pinghua (; Yale romanization of Cantonese, Yale: ''Pìhng Wá''; sometimes disambiguated as /) is a pair of Sinitic languages spoken mainly in parts of the Guangxi, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, with some speakers in Hunan province. Pinghua ...
.
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Mandarin Chinese