Leshan dialect

Leshan dialect
Native to	China
Region	Shizhong District, Leshan Wutongqiao District Shawan District Qianwei County Muchuan County
Native speakers	770,000 (date missing)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Mandarin Southwestern Sichuanese Minjiang dialect Leshan dialect
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

The Sichuanese dialect of the city of Leshan is a variety of Minjiang, which preserves old southern (Ba-Shu) features lost in other Sichuanese dialects and is very different from the dialects of most other cities in the province of Sichuan, which are more typically Mandarin.

Sichuanese

Dialects	Chengdu-Chongqing Minjiang Leshan Zigong

History	Ba-Shu Chinese

Scripts	Sichuanese characters Sichuanese Pinyin

Related languages	Sichuanese Standard Chinese

Sichuanese people Sichuan Chongqing

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