Karamay dialect

Karamay dialect
克拉玛依话/北疆话
Spoken in	Northern Xinjiang, China
Region	Northern Xinjiang, China;
Native speakers	≤500,000  (date missing)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Chinese Mandarin Beijing dialect Karamay dialect
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Karamay dialect (simplified Chinese: 克拉玛依话; traditional Chinese: 克拉瑪依話) is a Beijing Mandarin dialect spoken in northern Xinjiang, China. It is also known as North Xinjiang Area dialect (Chinese: 北疆话, 北京官话北疆片), the regions of which include Karamay, Shihezi, Burqin County, Toli County, Hoboksar Mongol Autonomous County, Wenquan County in northern Xinjiang and a few other regions in the southern.^[1] Karamay dialect is commonly referred to as a representative variant of the Beijing Mandarin dialect, while some linguists deny that because their survey concludes that the involved regions failed to form any variant form the Beijing Mandarin dialect .^[2]

References

1. ^ 新疆方言
2. ^ 新疆汉语方言北京官话北疆片代表话散论

See also

• List of Chinese dialects
• Beijing dialect
• Mandarin dialects