| Wuming Mandarin | |
| Also Known As: | Wuming Guanhua |
| Nativename: | Chinese: 武鸣官话 |
| States: | China |
| Region: | Wuming District |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | Sinitic |
| Fam3: | Chinese |
| Fam4: | Mandarin |
| Fam5: | Southwestern Mandarin |
| Fam6: | Gui–Liu |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Glotto: | none |
| Notice: | IPA |
Wuming Mandarin or Wuming Guanhua, known locally as Wuminghua, is a dialect of Southwestern Mandarin spoken in urban Wuming District, specifically in the towns of Chengxiang and Fucheng. It is a variety that has been influenced substantially by Zhuang, which is the majority language of the district.
Wuming Mandarin is classified as a part of the Gui–Liu subgroup of Southwestern Mandarin. The second edition of the Language Atlas of China further classifies it as part of the Guinan (southern Guangxi) cluster .
There are 18 phonemic initials (including the zero initial):
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | plain | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| aspirated | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||
| Affricate | plain | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||||
| aspirated | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||
| Lateral fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||||
There are seventy (70) rimes.
There are seven tones, six of which are native:
| Name | Tone letter | |
|---|---|---|
| yin level | pronounced as /˧/ (33) | |
| yang level | pronounced as /˨˩/ (21) | |
| rising | pronounced as /˥/ (55) | |
| departing | pronounced as /˨˦/ (24) | |
| high entering | pronounced as /˥/ (55) | |
| low entering | pronounced as /˨˩/ (21) |
The other tone, pronounced as /˧˥/ (35), is non-native, occurs in very few words, and corresponds to the yin level tone in Pinghua.