Pinghua ( Pínghuà, sometimes disambiguated as 廣西平話/广西平话
Guǎngxī Pínghuà) is a
Chinese language spoken mainly in parts of the
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, with some speakers in
Yunnan province. Pinghua is a trade language in some areas of Guangxi, where it is spoken as a second language by speakers of
Zhuang languages. Some speakers of Pinghua are officially classified as
Zhuang, and many are genetically distinct from the
Han majority of Chinese speakers. The northern subdialect of Pinghua is centered on
Guilin and the southern subdialect around
Nanning. Pinghua has several notable features such as having four distinct
checked tones, and using various loanwords from Zhuang, such as the final particle "wei" for imperative sentences.