What do Xiangxi people say?

Xiangxi dialect is southwest mandarin.

Southwest Mandarin, also known as Shangjiang Mandarin, is a dialect of Mandarin Chinese. Southwest Mandarin is mainly distributed in Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Yunnan, Xiangxi and other places.

Southwest Mandarin is a mandarin dialect gradually formed by immigrants from the Ming Dynasty and later. It is generally believed that Southwest Mandarin is an extension of Jianghuai Mandarin, and the two should be related and belong to Southern Mandarin. Immigration is the main reason for the formation of Southwest Mandarin.

In the Qing Dynasty, the Southwest Mandarin continued to expand and merged with the internal diffusion of immigrants. Southwest Mandarin has formed a cohesive regional language family in southwest China, and it is still expanding outward with the migration of population with its simple phonological advantages.