Chinese, Jinyu
A language of China
| Population | 45,000,000 (1995). |
| Region | Mainly in Shanxi Province; some in Shaanxi and Henan provinces. |
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| Alternate names | Jinyu |
| Dialects | 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. |
| Classification | Sino-Tibetan, Chinese A member of macrolanguage Chinese [zho] (China). |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L2: 91%. |
| Writing system | Han script, Simplified variant. Han script, Traditional variant. |
| Comments | Classified as Han nationality. |
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