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Sichuanese Mandarin commonly known as Sichuanese, Szechuanese or Szechwanese is a branch of Southwestern Mandarin, spoken mainly in Sichuan and Chongqing, which was part of Sichuan until 1997, and the adjacent regions of their neighboring provinces, such as Hubei, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan and Shaanxi. In addition, due to the fact that Sichuanese is the lingua franca in Sichuan, Chongqing and part of Tibet, it is also used by many Tibetan, Yi, Qiang and other groups as a second language. Although Sichuanese is usually classified as a dialect of Mandarin, glaring discrepancies exist in phonology, vocabulary and even grammar between Standard Mandarin and Sichuanese, especially Old Sichuanese (e.g. Minjiang dialect) which is extremely difficult for Standard Mandarin speakers to understand.
Sichuanese Mandarin commonly known as Sichuanese, Szechuanese or Szechwanese is a branch of Southwestern Mandarin, spoken mainly in Sichuan and Chongqing, which was part of Sichuan until 1997, and the adjacent regions of their neighboring provinces, such as Hubei, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan and Shaanxi. In addition, due to the fact that Sichuanese is the lingua franca in Sichuan, Chongqing and part of Tibet, it is also used by many Tibetan, Yi, Qiang and other groups as a second language. Although Sichuanese is usually classified as a dialect of Mandarin, glaring discrepancies exist in phonology, vocabulary and even grammar between Standard Mandarin and Sichuanese, especially Old Sichuanese (e.g. Minjiang dialect) which is extremely difficult for Standard Mandarin speakers to understand.
History
Like many of the southern provinces in China, Sichuan was fully Sinicize by the end of the Tang Dynasty. In the thirteenth century, the population of Sichuan dropped precipitously, suspected to be due in part to a series of plagues and Mongol invasions. The population did not recover until it was replenished by subsequent migrations of Proto-Mandarin speakers from Hubei, Xiang speakers, Gan speakers and Hakka speakers in the following centuries. The newcomers' languages largely supplanted the earlier varieties of Chinese in Sichuan. Sichuan has one of the most uniform dialects in all of Inner China, evidence that the variety of Chinese spoken there formed relatively recently.
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