Pinghua (linguistics)
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| Pinghua (平话) | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in: | China |
| Region: | Guangxi |
| Total speakers: | 200,000 |
| Ranking: | not in top 100 |
| Genetic classification: | Sino-Tibetan Chinese Pinghua |
| Official status | |
| Official language of: | --- |
| Regulated by: | --- |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | zh |
| ISO 639-2 | chi (B), zho (T) |
| SIL | |
| See also: Language – List of languages | |
Pinghua (平話/平话), also Guangxi Nanning, is a subdivision of spoken Chinese. It is spoken in parts of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and some in Hunan province. It is usually classified together with Cantonese.
Pinghua is a formerly unclassified dialect spoken by about 200,000 people. When Chinese is grouped into 7 dialects rather than 10, Pingua is grouped together with Cantonese, and there is some debate about considering it a separate dialect. According to Wu Wei in 2001, "Pinghua is only a branch of Cantonese rather than an independent dialect group."
Like all other varieties of Chinese, there is plenty of dispute as to whether Pinghua is a language or a dialect. See here for the issues surrounding this dispute.
| Chinese: spoken varieties | |
| Categories: |
Gan | Hakka | Hui | Jin | Mandarin | Min | Pinghua | Xiang | Wu | Yue |
| Subcategories of Min: | Min Bei | Min Dong | Min Nan | Min Zhong | Pu Xian | Qiong Wen | Shao Jiang |
| Note: The above is only one classification scheme among many. The categories in italics are not universally acknowledged to be independent categories. | |
| 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 |
