Beijing dialect

E57272

The Beijing dialect is the Mandarin Chinese variety spoken in Beijing that forms the primary phonological and lexical basis of Standard Chinese.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Beijing Mandarin 7
Beijing dialect canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese dialect
Mandarin Chinese variety
Sinitic language variety
alsoKnownAs Beijing Mandarin
linked to: Beijing dialect

Peking dialect
closelyRelatedTo Standard Mandarin
linked to: Standard Chinese
country China
differsFrom Standard Mandarin in degree of erhua
Standard Mandarin in slang usage
Standard Mandarin in vocabulary
formsBasisOf Modern Standard Mandarin lexicon
Modern Standard Mandarin phonology
linked to: Mandarin phonology

Putonghua
linked to: Mandarin Chinese

Standard Chinese
hasFeature alveolo-palatal initials
distinct colloquial vocabulary
erhua
neutral tone
retroflex initials
rhotacization of finals
tone sandhi
weak syllables
hasLexicalBasisFor core vocabulary of Standard Chinese
hasPhonologicalBasisFor Putonghua finals
Putonghua initials
Putonghua tones
hasToneCategory dipping tone
falling tone
high level tone
rising tone
hasToneNumber 4 lexical tones
hasWritingSystem Chinese characters
historicalRole basis of Putonghua in the People’s Republic of China
basis of the national lingua franca in the Republic of China era
influences Northern Mandarin dialects
linked to: Northern Mandarin
ISO639-3 none (covered under Mandarin Chinese cmn)
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages
region Northern China
linked to: North China
spokenBy residents of urban Beijing
spokenIn Beijing
Beijing Municipality
linked to: Beijing
standardizedAs basis for national standard pronunciation in China
subfamily Sinitic languages
linked to: Chinese language
subgroup Mandarin Chinese
usedIn Beijing opera (Peking opera) pronunciation
local media in Beijing
usesScript Simplified Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese characters

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Standard Chinese basedOnDialect Beijing dialect
Southwestern Mandarin standardBasedOn Beijing Mandarin
linked to: Beijing dialect
Beijing dialect alsoKnownAs Beijing Mandarin
linked to: Beijing dialect
Mandarin phonology isBasedOnDialect Beijing dialect
Jianghuai Mandarin contrastsWith Beijing Mandarin
linked to: Beijing dialect
Northern Mandarin hasMajorVariety Beijing Mandarin
linked to: Beijing dialect
Northern Mandarin hasStandardBasedOn Beijing dialect
Jilu Mandarin isDistinctFrom Beijing Mandarin
linked to: Beijing dialect
Langfang languageDialect Beijing Mandarin
linked to: Beijing dialect
Northeastern Mandarin hasDialectContinuumWith Beijing Mandarin
linked to: Beijing dialect