Pinghua and Tuhua

Pinghua and Tuhua is one of the ten primary dialects of the Chinese language in the Language Atlas of China (2nd edition).^[1] Pinghua and Tuhua are distributed across 60 county-level administrative regions in Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi, with a population of approximately 7.78 million people.

The Language Atlas of China (2nd edition) divides them into four branches:

The Guinan branch is also called the “Southern branch", while the other three branches are collectively referred to as the “Northern branch”.

References

^ Li; Wurm, Rong; Stephen Adolphe (2012). Language Atlas of China (2nd ed.). China. ISBN 978-962-359-085-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[1] Li; Wurm, Rong; Stephen Adolphe (2012). Language Atlas of China (2nd ed.). China. ISBN 978-962-359-085-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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