Chongqing dialect generally refers to Chongqing dialect.
Chongqing dialect in a broad sense (southwest mandarin pinyin: from Qin dialect; ; International phonetic symbol: [ts? o？ t？ Inxua]) refers to the mother tongue used by people living in Chongqing including surrounding counties (such as Hechuan District, Fuling District, Dianjiang County, Guang 'an City, Dazhou City, Nanchong City and surrounding areas). ), which belongs to Southwest Mandarin-Sichuan-Guizhou-Chengdu-Chongqing, is the representative of East Sichuan, which is quite different from Chengdu dialect in West Sichuan, and is also one of the most influential representative dialects in Southwest Mandarin.
Although in a broad sense, Chongqing dialect can also refer to the language used by all people in various districts and counties in Chongqing and urban counties in eastern Sichuan, there are still a large number of users of Minjiang dialect, Tukan dialect and Laohuguang dialect because of the great language differences between some districts and counties in Chongqing and some areas in eastern Sichuan.
Therefore, the Chongqing dialect referred to academically is only the language of the main city of Chongqing, and the population used accounts for about one-fifth of the population of Chongqing.