| Central Plains Mandarin | |
| Nativename: | 中原官话 Zhongyuan Guanhua |
| Region: | Yellow River Plain |
| Speakers: | million |
| Date: | 1982 |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | Sinitic |
| Fam3: | Chinese |
| Fam4: | Mandarin |
| Script: | Chinese characters, Xiao'erjing (historical) |
| Map: | Mandarín zhongyuan.png |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Iso6: | zgyu |
| Linglist: | cmn-zho |
| Glotto: | huab1238 |
| Glottoname: | Central Plain Guanhua |
| Glotto2: | zhon1236 |
| Glottoname2: | Zhongyuan |
| Lingua: | 79-AAA-bf |
Central Plains Mandarin, or Zhongyuan Mandarin, is a variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken in the central and southern parts of Shaanxi, Henan, southwestern part of Shanxi, southern part of Gansu, far southern part of Hebei, northern Anhui, northern parts of Jiangsu, southern Xinjiang and southern Shandong.
The archaic dialect in Peking opera is a form of Zhongyuan Mandarin.
Among Hui people, Zhongyuan Mandarin is sometimes written with the Arabic alphabet, called Xiao'erjing ("Children's script").
In Central Plains Mandarin, some phonological changes have affected certain syllables but not Standard Chinese.
pronounced as /[p]/ and pronounced as /[pʰ]/ have shifted to pronounced as /[p͜f]/ before the vowel pronounced as /[u]/.[2]
| 布 | 跛 | 坡 | 朴 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middle Chinese Initial | pronounced as /[p]/ | pronounced as /[p]/ | pronounced as /[pʰ]/ | pronounced as /[pʰ]/ | |
| Pinyin | bù | bǒ | pō | pǔ | |
| Standard Mandarin | |||||
| Central Plains Mandarin | pronounced as /[p͜fu]/ | pronounced as /[p͜fo]/ | pronounced as /[p͜fʰo]/ | pronounced as /[p͜fʰu]/ |
Standard Mandarin's pronounced as /[t͡ʂ]/, pronounced as /[t͡ʂʰ]/ and have shifted to pronounced as /[p͜f]/ before pronounced as /[u]/. pronounced as /[ʂ]/ has shifted to pronounced as /[f]/ before pronounced as /[u]/.
| 猪 | 初 | 书 | 熟 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middle Chinese Initial | pronounced as /[ʈ]/ | pronounced as /[t͡ʃʰ]/ | pronounced as /[ɕ]/ | pronounced as /[ʑ]/ | |
| Pinyin | zhū | chū | shū | shú | |
| Standard Mandarin | |||||
| Central Plains Mandarin | pronounced as /[p͜fu]/ | pronounced as /[p͜fu]/ | pronounced as /[fu]/ | pronounced as /[fu]/ |