Northeastern Mandarin

Northeastern Mandarin
东北话 Dōngběihuà
Native to	Jilin, Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia provinces of China; (Overseas, United States-New York City, Russia-primarily in Primorsky Krai)
Region	Northeast China, Russian Far East (Taz)
Native speakers	(82 million cited 1987)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Mandarin Northeastern Mandarin
Dialects	Taz Shenyang Harbin Changchun
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
ISO 639-6	dbiu
Linguist List	cmn-nem
Glottolog	nort3283
Linguasphere	79-AAA-bc
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Northeastern Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 东北话; traditional Chinese: 東北話; pinyin: Dōngběihuà; lit. 'Northeast Speech' or 东北官话/東北官話 Dōngběiguānhuà "Northeast Mandarin") is the subgroup of Mandarin varieties spoken in Northeast China with the exception of the Liaodong Peninsula and few enclaves along Amur and Ussuri rivers. The classification of Northeastern Mandarin as a separate dialect group from Beijing Mandarin was first proposed by Li Rong, author of the Language Atlas of China, in 1989. However, many researchers do not accept the distinction.^[2]