The southwest mandarin is one of the important branches of mandarin in modern Chinese language.
西南官话是现代汉语北方方言的一个重要分支，成都话是西南官话的代表方言。
According to China's Linguistics Atlas, the Sichuan dialect belongs to the southwest mandarin of the northern dialects.
根据《中国语言地图集》的分区，四川话属北方方言西南官话区。
Traditionally, Xing'an dialect's attribution has been struggled between in the Hunan dialect and the Southwest Mandarin, so far there is no strong conclusion.
而且，虽然学界目前对兴安县通用语——兴安话归属的主流观点是湘语，但以广西大学林亦教授为代表的一派则认为应归属于西南官话。
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