ABSTRACT
Zhoutun (周屯话 Zhoutunhua in Chinese) is a northwest Chinese (Mandarin) variety spoken by about 800–900 people in Zhoutun Village, Guide County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, P.R. China. Unlike other northwest Chinese varieties, Zhoutun was deeply influenced by Amdo Tibetan, and its basic word order was changed to a rigid SOV. In harmony with the SOV order, Zhoutun has a set of postpositions and postpositional case markers that do not exist or rarely exist in Mandarin Chinese with an SVO order.
