Shenyang Mandarin is a dialect of Northeastern Mandarin

Northeastern Mandarin

Northeastern Mandarin is the dialect of Mandarin Chinese spoken in what historically was Manchuria. It is very similar to the Beijing dialect upon which Standard Chinese is based.-Geographical spread:...

 used by people in and around Shenyang

Shenyang

Shenyang , or Mukden , is the capital and largest city of Liaoning Province in Northeast China. Currently holding sub-provincial administrative status, the city was once known as Shengjing or Fengtianfu...

, the capital of Liaoning

Liaoning

' is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the northeast of the country. Its one-character abbreviation is "辽" , a name taken from the Liao River that flows through the province. "Níng" means "peace"...

 province and the largest city in Northeast China

Northeast China

Northeast China, historically known in English as Manchuria, is a geographical region of China, consisting of the three provinces of Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang. The region is sometimes called the Three Northeast Provinces...

. It is very close to Standard Chinese

Standard Chinese

Standard Chinese, or Modern Standard Chinese, also known as Mandarin or Putonghua, is the official language of the People's Republic of China and Republic of China , and is one of the four official languages of Singapore....

 but has some notably distinctive words. Some people think of it as a strong accent rather than a distinct dialect. Because of its similarity to the standard language, pinyin

Pinyin

Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...

 can be used to represent the pronunciation.

However, as schools in Shenyang teach only the standard language, usage of the dialect is dwindling.

The most distinctive aspect of the Shenyang dialect is the much lower pitch of the first tone than in Standard Chinese. It would be positioned at 2, rather than 5, on the chart at right. As a result it can sound rather like the third tone.

Like Beijing dialect

Beijing dialect

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, Shenyang dialect is characterized by erhua

Erhua

Erhua ; also called erhuayin refers to a phonological process that adds r-coloring or the "ér" sound to syllables in spoken Mandarin Chinese. It is most common in the speech varieties of North China, especially in the Beijing dialect, as a diminutive suffix for nouns, though some dialects also...

 (儿化).

Some of the words in Shenyang dialect come from other languages like the Manchu language

Manchu language

Manchu is a Tungusic endangered language spoken in Northeast China; it used to be the language of the Manchu, though now most Manchus speak Mandarin Chinese and there are fewer than 70 native speakers of Manchu out of a total of nearly 10 million ethnic Manchus...

. One example is 旮旯儿 gālár 'corner'.

Examples of words in various Northeastern dialects (note that these may not be specific to Shenyang):

Northeastern Mandarin	pinyin Pinyin Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...	Standard Mandarin	Meaning
不赶趟兒 不	bù gǎntàngr	赶不上	Can't make it, Can't be on time
波楞盖儿	bōlin gàr	膝盖	Knee
疙瘩, 圪塔	gāda	地方	Place
得瑟	dèse	卖弄	Show off
老鼻子(了)	lǎobízi(le)	很多	A lot
驲驲地	rírídi	（形容速度快）	(Interjection for increasing speed)
埋汰	máitai	脏	Filthy
嘎哈	gāhā	干什么 、 干嘛	What are you doing?
砢碜	kēchen （pronounced kezhen)	不好看	Ugly / Bad looking
老	lǎo	很	Very
蚂蛉	mǎlíng	蜻蜓	Dragonfly