官话 (官話) guān huà

guān huà proper noun Mandarin
Domain: Linguistics 语言学 , Subdomain: China , Concept: Dialect 方言
Notes: A historic term for the Peking dialect, literally the language of the officials, which it was in the Qing. It may also refer to the general dialect of Northern China (Norman 1988, p. 133-136; Sun 2006, loc. 281).

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官话指南 、 江淮官话 、 早期官话 、 打官话 、 官话方言 、 西南官话 、 古官话