Lanyin Mandarin
Branch of Mandarin Chinese in northwest China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lan–Yin Mandarin (Lanyin) (simplified Chinese: 兰银官话; traditional Chinese: 蘭銀官話; pinyin: Lán–Yín Guānhuà) is a branch of Mandarin Chinese traditionally spoken throughout Gansu province and in the northern part of Ningxia. In recent decades it has expanded into northern Xinjiang.[1] It forms part of Northwestern Mandarin.[citation needed] It has also been grouped together with Central Plains Mandarin (Chinese: 中原官话).[2] The name is a compound of the capitals of the two former provinces where it dominates, Lanzhou and Yinchuan, which are also two of its principal subdialects.
Lan–Yin Mandarin | |
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Region | Gansu, northern Ningxia, part of northern Xinjiang |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 10 million[citation needed]) |
Sino-Tibetan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
ISO 639-6 | lyiu |
Glottolog | xibe1241 |
Linguasphere | 79-AAA-bg |
Among Chinese Muslims, it was sometimes written in the Arabic alphabet instead of Chinese characters.
The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, speaks the Xining dialect as his first language: he has said that his first language was "a broken Xining language which was (a dialect of) the Chinese language", a form of Central Plains Mandarin, and his family speak neither Amdo Tibetan nor Lhasa Tibetan.[3][4][5]