Lvliang dialect

E829203

The Lvliang dialect is a regional variety of Jin Chinese spoken in and around the Lvliang area of Shanxi Province, characterized by distinctive phonological and lexical features within the Jin dialect group.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Lvliang Jin dialect 1
Lvliang dialect canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese dialect
Jin Chinese dialect
regional dialect
belongsToDialectGroup Jin dialect group
contrastsWith Datong dialect
Standard Mandarin
linked to: Standard Chinese

Taiyuan dialect
country China
hasAlternativeName Lvliang Jin dialect
linked to: Lvliang dialect
hasFeature distinctive lexicon
distinctive phonology
phonological variation within Jin
tone system typical of Jin Chinese
hasLexicalFeature regional vocabulary items not used in Mandarin
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant distinctions characteristic of Jin
regional vowel realizations
hasSociolinguisticStatus coexists with Standard Mandarin in education and media
primarily used in informal contexts
languageFamily Jin Chinese
languageType spoken vernacular
linguisticClassification Sinitic branch
Sino-Tibetan language family
mutualIntelligibility less intelligible with Standard Mandarin
partially intelligible with other Jin dialects
partOf Chinese dialect continuum
region Lvliang area
western Shanxi
linked to: Shanxi Province
spokenIn Lvliang
linked to: Lüliang

Shanxi Province
northern China
linked to: North China
subgroupOf Chinese
Jin Chinese
Sinitic languages
usedBy local population of Lvliang area
writingSystem Chinese characters

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Jin Chinese hasDialectGroup Lvliang dialect
Lvliang dialect hasAlternativeName Lvliang Jin dialect
linked to: Lvliang dialect