Southwestern Mandarin
Also known as Huguang (湖广), Southwestern Mandarin is the variant of Mandarin Chinese widely spoken south of the Yangtze River, and east of the Tibetan Plateau.
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Subcategories of Mandarin: | Northeastern | Beijing | Ji-Lu | Jiao-Liao | Zhongyuan | | Southwestern | Taiwanese | | Dungan | |||
Subcategories of Min: | Min Bei | Min Dong | Min Nan | Min Zhong | Puxian | Qiong Wen | | |||
Comprehensive list of Chinese dialects | Identification of the varieties of Chinese | ||||
Historical phonology: | Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | | Proto-Mandarin | Haner | |||
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Official written varieties: | Classical Chinese | Vernacular Chinese | |||
Other varieties: | Written Vernacular Cantonese |