The Guanzhong dialect (simplified Chinese: 关中话; traditional Chinese: 關中話; pinyin: Guānzhōnghuà) is a dialect of Central Plains Mandarin spoken in Shaanxi's Guanzhong region, including the prefecture-level capital city of Xi'an.
The varieties spoken in northern and southern Shaanxi differ from that of Guanzhong, such as that of Hanzhong, which is a Southwestern Mandarin lect, more closely related to Sichuanese.
Due to the lexical and grammatical similarities between Northern Mandarin varieties, attrition of these dialects is more serious.
Like other Mandarin dialects, Xi'anese is tonal has a strict CGVN syllable structure.
The following is an outline of phonemes as seen in the speech of younger speakers, with romanization adapted from Hanyu Pinyin.
This lect, like other Sinitic languages, shows differences between urban and suburban dialects.
The two most noticeable differences are as follows:[6] Young people's speech merges the labiodental /pf pfʰ f v/ initials with the retroflex /tʂ tʂʰ ʂ ʐ/ series in certain situations.
The Muslim Hui people differ from the speech of the Han Chinese primarily in terms of vocabulary.