What is Southwest Mandarin?

The definition given by Atlas of Chinese Language is that all the Chinese dialects in the southwest and its vicinity are classified into a certain tone or four tones similar to those in Chengdu, Wuhan, Chongqing, Changde, Guiyang, Kunming and Guilin.

Southwest Mandarin is a Mandarin dialect gradually formed from the Ming Dynasty due to emigration to the southwest, and its phonetic system is also the simplest in Mandarin. Apart from the similarities of Mandarin, such as clear voiced sounds and no sharp group opposition, most of Southwest Mandarin is transitional Southern Mandarin.

Extended data

The population of the largest area in Southwest Mandarin is about 654.38+0 billion. Its phonetic system is also the simplest in Mandarin. In addition to the * * features of Putonghua, such as voiced articulation, distinguishing between j q x and g k h/z c s, and ending in -n or -ng in -m, Southwest Mandarin has flat and warped tones (in some areas, only the medieval pronunciation is zi-, ci- and si-), and there are also some areas that strictly distinguish flat and flat tongue sounds like Beijing dialect. Some people don't distinguish between n and l (most of them are against n and l), and they don't distinguish between ing and in, eng and en (after b, p, m and f, eng reads ong).

Most Rusheng words are classified as Yangping, and the classification is simple, which is not as complicated and confusing as the three Rusheng words in Beijing Mandarin, but some of them are reserved for Rusheng (but most of them are special tones with no ending) or classified as other tones. Southwest Mandarin has many similarities with Xiang dialect, Hakka dialect, Cantonese dialect and Gan dialect (for example, most ng initials are preserved, and many Cantonese dialects in East Sichuan dialect have unique pronunciation methods, such as "Xie" and "Liu". ), this is a transitional southern mandarin.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Southwest Mandarin