Central Plains Mandarin

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• Zheng-Kai (郑开) region: e.g. Kaifeng (开封) dialect, Zhengzhou (郑州) dialect
• Luo-Song (洛嵩) region: e.g. Luoyang dialect (洛阳话)
• Nan-Lu (南阳) region: e.g. Nanyang (南阳) dialect
• Luo-Xiang (漯项) region: e.g. Zhumadian (驻马店) dialect
• Shang-Fu (商阜) region: e.g. Shangqiu (商丘) dialect, Fuyang (阜阳) dialect
• Xin-Beng (信蚌) region: e.g. Xinyang (信阳) dialect, Bengbu (蚌埠) dialect
• Yan-He (兖菏) region: e.g. Jining (济宁) dialect
• Xu-Huai (徐淮) region: e.g. Xuzhou dialect (徐州话)
• Fenhe (汾河) region: e.g. Linfen (临汾) dialect, Wanrong (万荣) dialect
• Guanzhong region (关中), e.g. Xi'an (西安) dialect
• Qin-Long (秦陇) region: e.g. Xining (西宁) dialect, Dunhuang (敦煌) dialect
• Longzhong (陇中) region: e.g. Tianshui (天水) dialect, Dingxi (定西) dialect{{Cite book|last1=Wang|first1=Menghuan|last2=Ma|first2=Shuzhen|last3=Hu|first3=Axu|chapter=Experimental Study on Citation Tone of Dingxi Dialect in Gansu Province |date=2021|editor-last=Tavana|editor-first=Madjid|editor2-last=Nedjah|editor2-first=Nadia|editor3-last=Alhajj|editor3-first=Reda|title=Emerging Trends in Intelligent and Interactive Systems and Applications|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gtQPEAAAQBAJ&q=dingxi%2C+gansu&pg=PA340|series=Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing|volume=1304|language=en|location=Cham|publisher=Springer International Publishing|pages=340–345|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-63784-2_43|isbn=978-3-030-63784-2|s2cid=230557863 }}
• Hezhou (河州) Region: e.g. Gangou dialect (甘沟话) (influenced by Monguor)
• Nanjiang (南疆) Region: e.g. Yanqi dialect, Tulufan dialect
• Dungan language, written in Cyrillic, introduced many Russian loanwords, spoken mainly in Chu Valley and Fergana Valley in Central Asia

In Central Plains Mandarin, some phonological changes have affected certain syllables but not Standard Chinese.

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• Zhongyuan culture
• Central Plains (China), also called "Zhongyuan"

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