A report on Jin Chinese
Proposed group of varieties of Chinese spoken by roughly 63 million people in northern China, including most of Shanxi province, much of central Inner Mongolia, and adjoining areas in Hebei, Henan, and Shaanxi provinces.
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Shanxi
6 linksLandlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region.
Landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region.
Jin Chinese is considered by some linguists to be a distinct language from Mandarin and its geographical range covers most of Shanxi.
Mandarin Chinese
5 linksGroup of Sinitic languages and dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
Group of Sinitic languages and dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
The Language Atlas of China (1987) distinguishes three further groups: Jin (split from Mandarin), Huizhou in the Huizhou region of Anhui and Zhejiang, and Pinghua in Guangxi and Yunnan.
Hebei
4 linksNorthern province of China.
Northern province of China.
Three Mandarin dialects are spoken in Hebei: Jilu Mandarin, Beijing Mandarin and Jin.
Henan
4 linksLandlocked province of China, in the central part of the country.
Landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country.
Most of Henan speaks dialects of the Mandarin group of dialects spoken in northern and southwestern China. Linguists put these dialects into the category of "Zhongyuan Mandarin". The northwestern corner of Henan is an exception, where people speak Jin dialects instead. The dialects of Henan are collectively called "the Henan dialect" in popular usage, with easily identifiable stereotypical features.
Shaanxi
3 linksLandlocked province of the People's Republic of China.
Landlocked province of the People's Republic of China.
Mandarin is mainly spoken in Shaanxi, including Zhongyuan Mandarin and Southwestern Mandarin; another variety of Chinese, Jin(Shanxi Hua), is also spoken.
Inner Mongolia
4 linksLandlocked autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.
Landlocked autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.
Those in the eastern parts tend to speak Northeastern Mandarin, which belongs to the Mandarin group of dialects; those in the central parts, such as the Yellow River valley, speak varieties of Jin, another subdivision of Chinese, due to its proximity to other Jin-speaking areas in China such as the Shanxi province.
Varieties of Chinese
1 linksBranch of the Sino-Tibetan language family consisting of hundreds of local varieties, many of which are not mutually intelligible.
Branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family consisting of hundreds of local varieties, many of which are not mutually intelligible.
Jin
Hohhot
2 linksCapital of Inner Mongolia in the north of the People's Republic of China, serving as the region's administrative, economic and cultural center.
Capital of Inner Mongolia in the north of the People's Republic of China, serving as the region's administrative, economic and cultural center.
Older Hohhot residents mostly tend to converse in the Hohhot dialect, a branch of the Jin language from neighbouring Shanxi province.
Lower Yangtze Mandarin
1 linksOne of the most divergent and least mutually-intelligible of the Mandarin languages, as it neighbours the Wu, Hui, and Gan groups of Sinitic languages.
One of the most divergent and least mutually-intelligible of the Mandarin languages, as it neighbours the Wu, Hui, and Gan groups of Sinitic languages.
A similar development is also found in the adjacent Wu dialect group, and in the Jin group, which many linguists include within Mandarin.