Southern Pinghua (Chinese:桂南平話) is a language subfamily of theYue branch of Chinese. Currently under Wiktionary, the Yue branch does not exist, so Southern Pinghua is classified as a direct descendent family ofMiddle Chinese.

Currently,Nanning Pinghua, the representative lect, is included in Wiktionary, with Tingzi (亭子) being the representative locality. For the romanization,Jyutping++ is adopted as below.

Under the current analysis, Nanning Pinghua has 22 initials, including the zero-initial.

Under the current analysis, Nanning Pinghua has 49 finals, including a syllabic/ŋ̍/.

Nanning Pinghua has 10 tones, which are represented by 6 symbols.

• As with Jyutping for Cantonese, we use an analysis where glides are all transferred to (part of) the initial. For example:
  • We analyse/uai ~ βai/ with initial ⟨w⟩ and final ⟨aai⟩.
  • We analyse/kuai ~ kwai/ with initial ⟨kw⟩ and final ⟨aai⟩.
• As with Jyutping for Cantonese, we disallow syllables starting with a high vowel. For example:
  • ⟨ji⟩ is preferred over *⟨i⟩ for/ji ~ i/.
  • ⟨wu⟩ is preferred over *⟨u⟩ for/βu ~ u/.
  • ⟨jyu⟩ is preferred over *⟨yu⟩ for/jy ~ y/.
  • However, for our analysis,/iɐ/ does not count as starting with a high vowel, because it is an allophone of/e/ before/ŋ/ and/k̚/, so ⟨iak⟩/iɐk̚/ and ⟨jak⟩/jək̚/ are both valid syllables.

In the pronunciation section of each entry, under the{{zh-pron}} template, use the|sp= parameter to indicate the pronunciation of the entry in Jyutping++ as described above. Use commas, without spaces to separate alternate readings.

|sp=njoek5,njyu6

|sp=njyu6 mai5

• Category:Southern Pinghua language
• Category:Nanning Pinghua
• Module:csp-pron