Xinjiang Mandarin

{{Short description|Varieties of Mandarin Chinese}}

Xinjiang Mandarin ({{lang-zh|t=新疆官話|s=新疆官话|p=Xinjiang Guānhuà}}) is an umbrella term to geographically group three different varieties of Mandarin Chinese spoken in Xinjiang. Lanyin Mandarin is spoken in northern Xinjiang.China - Page 902 Chung Wah Chow, David Eimer, Caroline B Heller - 2009 "Language Most of the population in Qīnghǎi speaks a northwestern Chinese dialect similar to Gānsù huà (part of the Lan–Yin Mandarin family). Tibetans speak the Amdo or Kham dialects of Tibetan. It's possible to travel almost everywhere using ..."{{sfnp|Wurm|Li|Baumann|Lee|1987|loc=Maps B4, B5}} Central Plains Mandarin (中原官话) is spoken in southern Xinjiang,.{{sfnp|Wurm|Li|Baumann|Lee|1987|loc=Maps B3, B4, B5}} Beijing Mandarin is spoken in the most northern frontier Xinjiang by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps settled there since the 1950s.{{sfnp|Wurm|Li|Baumann|Lee|1987|loc=Maps B2, B5}}

Due to language contact between the Uyghurs and Han Chinese, Xinjiang Mandarin received some elements from the Uyghur language.{{Cite journal |last=Baki |first=Ablimit |date=2012 |title=Language Contact Between Uyghur and Chinese in Xinjiang, PRC: Uyghur Elements in Xinjiang Putonghua |journal=International Journal of the Sociology of Language |volume=2012 |issue=215 |doi=10.1515/ijsl-2012-0028|s2cid=147468296 |url=https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/24441947/POST-PEER-REVIEW-PUBLISHERS.PDF }}