Chengdu-Chongqing dialect

Chengdu-Chongqing dialect
成渝话
Pronunciation	[tsʰən˨˩y˨˩xua˨˨˦]
Native to	China
Region	Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei and Shaanxi
Native speakers	About 90 million (date missing)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Chinese Mandarin Southwestern/Sichuanese Chengdu-Chongqing dialect
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
Chengdu-Chongqing is the largest deep-green area.

Chengdu-Chongqing dialect (simplified Chinese: 成渝话; traditional Chinese: 成渝話, Sichuanese Pinyin: Cen²yu²hua⁴, local pronunciation: [tsʰən˨˩y˨˩xua˨˨˦]), named after the two largest cities in Sichuan: Chengdu and Chongqing, is the most widely used branch of Sichuanese with about 90 million speakers. It is spoken mainly in North and East Sichuan, the northeastern part of Chengdu Plain, several cities or counties in southwestern Sichuan (Panzhihua, Dechang, Yanyuan, Huili and Ningnan), Southern Shaanxi and Western Hubei.^[1]

This uniform dialect is formed after the great migration movement in Ming and Qing dynasty, and is greatly influenced by the Chinese varieties the immgrants spoke (mainly Southern Proto-Mandarin from Hubei, Xiang and Gan). So it keeps fewer characteristics of Sichuan's original Ba-Shu Chinese than other Sichuanese dialects, such as Minjiang dialect.

References

Sichuanese

Dialects	Chengdu-Chongqing Minjiang Leshan Zigong

History	Ba-Shu Chinese

Scripts	Sichuanese character Sichuanese Pinyin

Related languages	Sichuanese Standard Mandarin

Sichuanese people Sichuan Chongqing

Eastern	Fuzhou Fuqing Fu'an Manjiang

Southern	Hokkien Quanzhou Zhangzhou Amoy Taiwanese Philippine Hokkien Medan Hokkien Penang Hokkien Singaporean Hokkien Southern Peninsular Malaysian Hokkien Zhenan Longyan Teochew Shantou Haifeng Zhongshan Nanlang Sanxiang

other	Northern Jian'ou Jianyang Central Pu–Xian Shao–Jiang Leizhou Zhanjiang Hainan

Proposed

Unclassified

Phonology

Literary forms

Official	Classical Adoption in Vietnam Vernacular

Other varieties of Chinese	Written Cantonese Written Dungan Written Hokkien Written Sichuanese

Standard	Simplified Traditional

Historical	Oracle bone Bronze Seal Clerical Semi-cursive Cursive

Braille	Cantonese Braille Mainland Chinese Braille Taiwanese Braille Two-Cell Chinese Braille

Other	Romanization Pinyin Wade–Giles Bopomofo Xiao'erjing Nüshu Chinese punctuation Taiwanese kana Dungan Cyrillic

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