The Pyongan dialect (평안도 사투리) alternatively Northwestern Korean (서북 방언 西北方言) is the Korean dialect of the northwestern Korean peninsula and neighboring parts of China. It has influenced the standard language of North Korea but is not the basis of it which remains Seoul dialect.
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