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Meaning of Pinghua | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A group of Chinese dialects spoken in Guangxi.

uncountable

Examples

“Such readings need to be checked against their pronunciations in Pinghua. We often find that Zhuang readings could equally well come from more recent reading pronunciations in Pinghua, and this means they do not necessarily represent older layers of borrowings.”
“In the Atlas, Pinghua has received the status of a separate dialect group, which has sparked a number of controversies.”
“Nanning Pinghua is a member of the Pinghua (平話) subgroup of Sinitic. There are various accents of Nanning Pinghua spoken in the different suburbs of Nanning; their phonological differences are obvious, but they are mutually intelligible.”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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