Chengdu-Chongqing dialect

Chengdu-Chongqing dialect (simplified Chinese: 成渝话; traditional Chinese: 成渝話, Sichuanese Pinyin: Cen²yu²hua⁴, local pronunciation: [tsʰən˨˩y˨˩xua˨˨˦]), named after the two largest cities in Sichuan: Chengdu and Chongqing, is the most widely used branch of Sichuanese with about 90 million speakers. It is spoken mainly in North and East Sichuan, the northeastern part of Chengdu Plain, several cities or counties in southwestern Sichuan (Panzhihua, Dechang, Yanyuan, Huili and Ningnan), Southern Shaanxi and Western Hubei.^[1]

This uniform dialect is formed after the great migration movement in Ming and Qing dynasty, and is greatly influenced by the Chinese varieties the immgrants spoke (mainly Southern Proto-Mandarin from Hubei, Xiang and Gan). So it keeps fewer characteristics of Sichuan's original Ba-Shu Chinese than other Sichuanese dialects, such as Minjiang dialect.

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Sichuanese Dialects Chengdu-Chongqing Chengdu Chongqing Langzhong Bazhong Minjiang Leshan Yaoling Youzha Yibin Jiangjin Xichang (disputed) Renshou-Fushun Zigong Renshou Rongxian Ya'an-Shimian Ya'an History Ba Shu Ba-Shu scripts Ba-Shu Chinese Written Sichuanese Sichuanese character Sichuanese Pinyin Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz Related languages Sichuanese Hakka Sichuanese Xiang Sichuanese Standard Mandarin Sichuanese people Sichuan Chongqing