Southwestern Mandarin
Southwestern Mandarin (zh-c|c=西南官话), also known as "Huguang" (湖广), is a dialect of Mandarin Chinese widely spoken south of the Yangtze River, and east of the Tibetan Plateau. It covers a large geographical area stretching from Yunnan to Sichuan. It is spoken by both ethnic Han Chinese and Tibetans in southwestern China.
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*Sichuan Mandarin
ee also
*Sichuan dialect
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