Alternate Names: Jin, Jinyu
Dialects: Changzhi, Pingyao. Formerly considered part of Xibei Guanhua dialect of Mandarin Chinese ,, 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 ,.
Status Notes: Language of recognized nationality: Han.
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Demographics: 45,000,000 (1995).
Language Use: All ages. 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.
Typology: SVO; tonal.
Writing System: Han (Simplified), Han (Traditional)
Nation of Origin: China