CJY ISO 639-3
Chinese, Jinyu
晋语 (Jin) Autonym
A language of China
- ISO 639
- cjy
- Alternate Names
- Jin Chinese, Jinese, Jinhua, Jinyu
- Autonym
- 晋语 (Jin)
- Population
- 47,100,000 (2018).
- Location:
- Nei Mongol Autonomous Region, Shaanxi, and Shanxi provinces; some in Beijing, Gansu, west Hebei, and Henan provinces.
- 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].
Also Spoken in
Map
Location: Nei Mongol Autonomous Region, Shaanxi, and Shanxi provinces; some in Beijing, Gansu, west Hebei, and Henan provinces.
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