Píng

Ping, or Pinghua, is the Sinitic speech carried by the earliest Han settlers of Guangxi, along the old route from Hunan, with related varieties in southern Hunan and northern Guangdong. Han migrants entered the region in the first millennium.

The name is traditionally traced to the Pingnan Army that the Northern Song general Di Qing led into Guangxi in the 1050s to crush Nong Zhigao's rebellion; its soldiers settled on the land and their speech became later Pinghua. Long contact with the Zhuang peoples made it a regional lingua franca and brought Zhuang loanwords, including a final particle used in commands.

It has two largely unintelligible branches, Northern Pinghua around Guilin and Southern Pinghua around Nanning. Pinghua is written in Chinese characters.