Southwestern Mandarin
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Also known as Huguang (湖广), it is the variant of Mandarin Chinese widely spoken south of the Yangtze River, and east of the Tibetan Plateau.
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Gan | Hakka | Hui | Jin | Mandarin | Min | Ping | Xiang | Wu | Cantonese |
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Subcategories of Min: | Min Bei | Min Dong | Min Nan | Min Zhong | Puxian | Qiongwen | Shaojiang | |||
Subcategories of Mandarin: | Northeastern | Beijing | Ji-Lu | Jiao-Liao | Zhongyuan | Lan-Yin | Southwestern | Jianghuai | Dungan | |||
Note: The above is only one classification scheme among many. The categories in italics are not universally acknowledged to be independent categories. |
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Comprehensive list of Chinese dialects | ||||
Official spoken varieties: | Standard Mandarin | Standard Cantonese | |||
Historical phonology: | Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Proto-Min | Proto-Mandarin | Haner | |||
Chinese: written varieties | ||||
Official written varieties: | Classical Chinese | Vernacular Chinese | |||
Other varieties: | Written Vernacular Cantonese |