Jiaoliao Mandarin

{{Short description|Dialect of Mandarin Chinese}}

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{{Infobox language

| name = Jiao–Liao Mandarin

| nativename =

| region = Shandong and Liaodong

| speakers = 35 million

| date = 2019

| ref = {{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan

| fam2 = Sinitic

| fam3 = Chinese

| fam4 = Mandarin

| map = Mandarín jiaoliao.png

| mapcaption = {{image reference needed|date=November 2022}}

| isoexception = dialect

| iso6 = jliu

| linglist = cmn-jia

| glotto = none

| glotto2 = huab1238

| glottoname2 = Central Plain Guanhua

| lingua = 79-AAA-bd

| states = China

| altname = Peninsular Mandarin

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Jiaoliao or Jiao–Liao Mandarin ({{lang-zh

|s=胶辽官话

|t=膠遼官話

|p=Jiāo–Liáo Guānhuà}}), sometimes referred to as Peninsular Mandarin, is a primary dialect of Mandarin Chinese, spoken on the Jiaodong Peninsula, from Yantai to Qingdao, Ganyu District in northeastern Jiangsu and the Liaodong Peninsula, from Dalian to Dandong, and in Mishan, Hulin, Fuyuan & Raohe counties of Heilongjiang. Yantai, Dalian, and Weihai dialects are the standard Jiao–Liao Mandarin.Margaret Mian Yan Introduction to Chinese Dialectology 2006 - Page 62 "Jiao–Liao Mandarin Group 胶辽官话The estimated number of native speakers of this group is 28.83 million; it is divided into the following subgroups: (1) Qingzhou subgroup (2) Deng–Lian subgroup (3) Gai–Huan Subgroup 5. Zhongyuan Mandarin ..."