Jilu Mandarin
Jilu or Ji-Lu Mandarin, formerly known as Beifang Mandarin "Northern Mandarin", is a dialect of Mandarin Chinese spoken in the Chinese provinces of Hebei and the western part of Shandong and Xunke, Tangwang & Jiayin counties of Heilongjiang. Its name is a combination of the abbreviated names of the two provinces, which derive from ancient local provinces. The names are combined as Ji-Lu Mandarin.
Although these areas are near Beijing, Ji-Lu has a different accent and many lexical differences from the Beijing dialect, which is the basis for Standard Chinese, the official national language. There are three dialect groups: Bao-Tang, Shi-Ji, and Cang-Hui.
People from the eastern part of Shandong, or the Jiaodong Peninsula, speak Jiaoliao Mandarin.
Dialect groups
- , incorporating a large part of Tianjin and northern part of Hebei province.
- *Tianjin dialect
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- 石济片, incorporating a large part of central Hebei province including the capital Shijiazhuang and western part of Shandong province, including the capital Jinan
- *Xingtai dialect
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- *Jinan dialect
- , incorporating the coastal region of the Yellow River Delta