Sichuanese Mandarin

Sichuanese
Szechwanese
四川话
Pronunciation	locally [sɨ˨˩˧tsʰwan˥xwa˨˩˧]
Native to	China
Region	Sichuan, Chongqing and their neighboring provinces
Native speakers	ca. 100 million (date missing)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Chinese Mandarin Southwestern Sichuanese
Dialects	Chengdu–Chongqing dialect, Minjiang dialect, Renshou–Fushun dialect, Ya'an–Shimian dialect
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
Sichuanese in China
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Sichuanese (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; Sichuanese Pinyin: Si⁴cuan¹hua⁴; pinyin: Sìchuānhuà; Wade–Giles: Szŭ4-ch'uan1-hua4), or Sichuanese/Szechwanese Mandarin, (simplified Chinese: 四川官话; traditional Chinese: 四川官話; pinyin: Sìchuān Guānhuà) commonly known as Sichuanese, or Szechwanese is a branch of Southwestern Mandarin, spoken mainly in Sichuan and Chongqing, which was part of Sichuan Province until 1997, and the adjacent regions of their neighboring provinces, such as Hubei, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan and Shaanxi. Although "Sichuanese" is often synonymous with the Chengdu-Chongqing dialect, there is still a great amount of diversity among the Sichuanese dialects, some of which are mutually unintelligible with each other. In addition, because Sichuanese is the lingua franca in Sichuan, Chongqing and part of Tibet, it is also used by many Tibetan, Yi, Qiang and other ethnic minority groups as a second language.