Xinjiang Mandarin

Xinjiang Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 新疆官话; traditional Chinese: 新疆官話; pinyin: Xinjiang Guānhuà) is an umbrella term to geographically group three different varieties of Mandarin Chinese spoken in Xinjiang. Lanyin Mandarin is spoken in northern Xinjiang.^[1]^[2] Central Plains Mandarin (中原官话) is spoken in southern Xinjiang,^[3]. Beijing Mandarin is spoken in the most northern frontier Xinjiang by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps settled there since the 1950s.^[4]

Due to language contact between the Uyghurs and Han Chinese, Xinjiang Mandarin received some elements from the Uyghur language.^[5]

References

^ China - Page 902 Chung Wah Chow, David Eimer, Caroline B Heller - 2009 "Language Most of the population in Qīnghǎi speaks a northwestern Chinese dialect similar to Gānsù huà (part of the Lan–Yin Mandarin family). Tibetans speak the Amdo or Kham dialects of Tibetan. It's possible to travel almost everywhere using ..."
^ Wurm et al. (1987), Maps B4, B5.
^ Wurm et al. (1987), Maps B3, B4, B5.
^ Wurm et al. (1987), Maps B2, B5.
^ Baki, Ablimit (2012). "Language Contact Between Uyghur and Chinese in Xinjiang, PRC: Uyghur Elements in Xinjiang Putonghua" (PDF). International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 2012 (215). doi:10.1515/ijsl-2012-0028. S2CID 147468296.

Wurm, Stephen Adolphe; Li, Rong; Baumann, Theo; Lee, Mei W. (1987). Language Atlas of China. Hong Kong: Longman. ISBN 962-359-085-7.