Chinese, Jinyu

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A language of China

ISO 639-3
cjy
Alternate Names
Jin Chinese, Jinese, Jinhua, Jinyu
Autonym
晋语‎ (Jin)
User Population

47,100,000 (2018).

Location

Nei Mongol Autonomous Region, Shaanxi, and Shanxi provinces; some in Beijing, Gansu, west Hebei, and Henan provinces.

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Language Status

5 (Developing). Language of recognized nationality: Han.

Classification
Sino-Tibetan, Chinese
Dialects

Bingzhou, Wutai, Da-Bao, Zhang-Hu, Zhi-Yan, Lüliang, Shangdang, Han-Xin. 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. A member of macrolanguage Chinese [zho].

Typology

SVO; tonal.

Language Use

Used by all. Also use Mandarin Chinese [cmn].

Language Development

Literacy rate in L2: 91% (2000 census, Han nationality). Highly literate in Chinese and they use that literature. Grammar.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Chinese, Jinyu
Writing

Han script, Simplified variant [Hans]. Han script, Traditional variant [Hant].