After the concept of Mandarin Chinese was proposed, the Jin dialects were universally included within it, mainly because Chinese linguists paid little attention to these dialects at the time. In order to promote Standard Mandarin … See more

Unlike most varieties of Mandarin, Jin has preserved a final glottal stop, which is the remnant of a final stop consonant (/p/, /t/ or /k/). This is in … See more

Jin readily employs prefixes such as 圪 /kəʔ/, 黑 /xəʔ/, 忽 /xuəʔ/, and 入(日) /ʐəʔ/, in a variety of derivational constructions. For example: 入鬼 "fool around" < 鬼 "ghost, devil" See more

• Classification of the Jin Dialects
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The Language Atlas of China divides Jin into the following eight groups:
Bingzhou group [zh] (Chinese: 并州片), spoken in central Shanxi (the ancient Bing Province), including Taiyuan. Most dialects under this group can distinguish the light entering tone from … See more

Lexical diversity in Jin Chinese is obvious, with some words having a very distinct regionality. Usually, there are more unique words in the core dialects than in the non-core dialects and … See more