Central Plains Mandarin

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Central Plains Mandarin
Zhongyuan Guanhua
Region	Yellow River Plain
Native speakers	170 million (date missing)^{[citation needed]}
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Chinese Mandarin Central Plains Mandarin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
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 dialect of Mandarin Chinese spoken in the central part of Shaanxi, Henan, and southern part of Shandong.

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

Min Dong	Fuzhou Manjiang

Min Nan	Hokkien Quanzhou Zhangzhou Amoy Taiwanese Philippine Hokkien Medan Singaporean Hokkien Southern Peninsular Malaysian Hokkien Zhenan Longyan Teochew Shantou Haifeng Zhongshan Nanlang Sanxiang

other Min	Min Bei Jian'ou Min Zhong Pu-Xian Shao-Jiang Leizhou Zhanjiang Hainan

Disputed

Unclassified

Phonology

Official	Classical Adoption in Korea Japan Vietnam Vernacular Pinyin Bopomofo

Standards	Simplified Traditional

Historical scripts	Oracle bone Bronze Seal Clerical Semi-cursive Cursive

Braille	Cantonese Braille Mainland Chinese Braille Taiwanese Braille Two-Cell Chinese Braille

Other	Written Cantonese Written Dungan Written Hokkien Written Sichuanese Xiao'erjing Nüshu Wade–Giles Chinese punctuation Romanization of Chinese

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