Central Plains Mandarin

Central Plains Mandarin
Zhongyuan Guanhua
Region	Yellow River Plain
Native speakers	unknown (170 million cited 1982)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Mandarin Central Plains Mandarin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
ISO 639-6	zgyu
Linguist list	cmn-zho
Glottolog	None huab1238  (Huabei Guanhua)

Central Plains or Zhongyuan Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 中原官话; traditional Chinese: 中原官話; pinyin: zhōngyuán guānhuà) is a variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken in the central part of Shaanxi, Henan, and southern part of Shandong.

The archaic dialect of Peking opera is a form of Zhongyuan Mandarin.

Among Chinese Muslims, it is sometimes written in the Arabic alphabet.

Subdialects

• Guanzhong dialect (关中话)
• Henan dialect (河南话), Henan province
• Luoyang dialect
• Gangou dialect, Qinghai – influenced by Monguor
• Dungan language, Russia
• Xuzhou dialect, （徐州话）Xuzhou, north Jiangsu province
• Wanbei dialect, (皖北话）North Anhui province