官話方言是目前中國使用人數最多的方言,約佔全國人口的70%。它主要分布在中國秦嶺—淮河以北的大部分地區以及江蘇大部、安徽中北部、四川、重慶、雲南、貴州等地。但由於其分布範圍太廣,官話方言內部也存在著很多差異。因此根據這些差異,我們可以進一步將官話方言劃分為:北京官話、東北官話、冀魯官話、膠遼官話、江淮官話、中原官話、蘭銀官話、西南官話。而現代標準漢語,也就說我們常說的普通話,就是以北京官話為基礎音調,與其他官話詞彙和句法共同形成的規範性語言。
Mandarin dialect is the most widely used dialect in China, accounting for about 70% of the population. It is mainly spoken in the Qinling Mountains -northern Huaihe River and most of Jiangsu, Anhui, Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places. However, due to the wide spread of regions, there are many differences in Mandarin dialects. Therefore, according to these discrepancies, we can further divide the Mandarin dialects into 8 dialect groups: Beijing Mandarin, Northeast Mandarin, Ji Lu Mandarin, Jiao Liao Mandarin, Jianghuai Mandarin, Zhongyuan Mandarin, Lan Yin Mandarin and Southwest Mandarin. And the Standard Chinese what we often call Mandarin, is based on the particular Mandarin dialect spoken in Beijing, with some lexical and syntactic influence from other Mandarin languages.