Chinese, Jinyu
PrintA language of China
ISO 639-3
Alternate Names
Jin, Jinyu
Population
45,000,000 (1995).
Location
Mainly Shaanxi Province; some in west Hebei and Henan provinces.
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Language Status
6a (Vigorous).
Classification
Dialects
Changzhi, Pingyao. Formerly considered part of Xibei Guanhua dialect of Mandarin Chinese [cmn], but now considered by many a separate major dialect of Chinese. Unlike Mandarin, it has contrastive glottal-checked syllables and other distinctive features.
Typology
SVO; tonal
Language Development
Literacy rate in L2: 91% (2000 census, Han nationality). Highly literate in Chinese and they use that literature.
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Writing
Han script, Simplified variant. Han script, Traditional variant.
Majority officially classified within Han nationality.