Central Plains Mandarin

Central Plains Mandarin, 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 and southern parts of Shaanxi, Henan, southwestern part of Shanxi, southern part of Gansu, far southern part of Hebei, northern Anhui, northern parts of Jiangsu, southern Xinjiang and southern Shandong.

Central Plains Mandarin
中原官话
Zhongyuan Guanhua
RegionYellow River Plain
Native speakers
(170 million cited 1982)
Sino-Tibetan
  • Sinitic
    • Chinese
      • Mandarin
        • Central Plains Mandarin
Writing system
Chinese characters, Xiao'erjing (historical)
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
ISO 639-6zgyu
Linguist List
cmn-zho
Glottologhuab1238  Central Plain Guanhua
zhon1236  Zhongyuan
Linguasphere79-AAA-bf

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

Among Hui people, Zhongyuan Mandarin is sometimes written with the Arabic alphabet, called Xiao'erjing ("Children's script").

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