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語源

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 平話 / 平话 (Pínghuà).

名詞

Pinghua (uncountable)

1. A group of Chinese dialects spoken in Guangxi.
   • 2004 November 30, Anthony Diller, Jerry Edmondson, Yongxian Luo, The Tai-Kadai Languages, Routledge, →ISBN, page 424:

     Such readings need to be checked against their pronunciations in Pinghua. We often find that Zhuang readings could equally well come from more recent reading pronunciations in Pinghua, and this means they do not necessarily represent older layers of borrowings.

   • 2010, Maria Kurpaska, Chinese Language(s): A Look Through the Prism of The Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 76:

     In the Atlas, Pinghua has received the status of a separate dialect group, which has sparked a number of controversies.

   • 2015, Hilary Chappell, Diversity in Sinitic Languages, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 159-160:

     Nanning Pinghua is a member of the Pinghua (平話) subgroup of Sinitic. There are various accents of Nanning Pinghua spoken in the different suburbs of Nanning; their phonological differences are obvious, but they are mutually intelligible.