proximity, Sanxiang is not very closely related to the surrounding dialects in the region, which belong to the Yue group, and thus forms a "dialect island"...

residents and a retirement haven for people from all over China. Zheng Junli Zheng Guanying (鄭觀應/郑观应) Sanxiang dialect Sanxiang Township Government Website...

little mutual intelligibility with Hokkien, while Teo-Swa Min, the Sanxiang dialect of Zhongshan Min, and Qiong-Lei Min also have historical linguistic...

Datian Min of Datian County in Sanming, Fujian Potentially, also the Sanxiang dialect of Zhongshan Min in Guangdong province[clarification needed] The Language...

Zhangjiabian in the east, and Sanxiang dialect, spoken in Sanxiang in the south. According to Nicholas Bodman, the Longdu and Nanlang dialects belong to the Eastern...

into three branches: the Longdu dialect and Nanlang dialect belong to the Eastern Min group, while the Sanxiang dialect belongs to Southern Min. The Eastern...

The Haikou dialect is a topolect of Chinese and a subvariety of Hainanese spoken in Haikou, the capital of the Hainan province and island of China. The...

Town Guzhen dialect – Guzhen Town Sanjiao dialect – Sanjiao Town Nanlang dialect – Nanlang Town Sanxiang dialect – Sanxiang Town Longdu dialect – Dachong...

The Amoy dialect or Xiamen dialect (Chinese: 廈門話; pinyin: Xiàménhuà; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ē-mn̂g-ōe), also known as Amoyese, Amoynese, Amoy Hokkien, Xiamenese...

The Swatow dialect, or in Mandarin the Shantou dialect, is a Chinese dialect mostly spoken in Shantou in Guangdong, China. It is a dialect of Chaoshan...

(Longyan) Datian (Duacan / Qianluhua) Taoyuan Teochew (Chaoshan / Chaozhou) Sanxiang (Zhongshan Minnan) Luichow (Leizhou) Hainanese (Qiongwen) Eastern Min Fuqing...

The Longyan dialect (simplified Chinese: 龙岩话; traditional Chinese: 龍巖話; pinyin: Lóngyánhuà), also known as Longyan Minnan (simplified Chinese: 龙岩闽南语;...

Wenchang dialect being the prestige dialect, and often used as a reference. Below is a table for the consonants of Hainanese across the dialects of Wenchang...

collection of Hokkien dialects spoken in southern Fujian province (in southeast China), centered on the city of Zhangzhou. The Zhangzhou dialect proper is the...

The Fu'an dialect (福安話) is a dialect of Eastern Min, which is a branch of Min Chinese spoken mainly in the eastern part of Fujian Province, China. The...

other dialects; the Chenghai dialect (similar to urban Chaozhou dialect) is perceived as "soft", "cute", and "high-pitched"; the Teoyeo dialect is perceived...

linguistic definition Fuzhou is a language and not a dialect (conferring the variety a 'dialect' status is more socio-politically motivated than linguistic)...

northern Fujian also speak Pu-Xian. There are minor differences between the dialects of Putian and Xianyou. Overseas populations of Pu-Xian speakers exist in...

The Putian dialect (Pu-Xian Min: Pó-chéng-uā / 莆田話; IPA: [pʰɔu˩˩ lɛŋ˩˧ ua˩˩]) is a dialect of Pu-Xian Min Chinese spoken in urban area of Putian[further...

The Matsu dialect (Eastern Min: Mā-cū-uâ / 馬祖話) is the local dialect of Matsu Islands, Taiwan. Native speakers also call it Bàng-huâ (平話), meaning the...

one of three enclaves of Min in Zhongshan, the others being Longdu and Sanxiang. Min is believed to have split from Old Chinese, rather than Middle Chinese...

Zhejiang, the Zhoushan archipelago off Ningbo in Zhejiang, the town of Sanxiang at the southern periphery of Zhongshan in Guangdong, and in the Chaoshan...

Chawan dialect (simplified Chinese: 诏安话; traditional Chinese: 詔安話; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chiàu-an-ōɛ) is a variety of Southern Min spoken in the Chawan (Zhao'an)...

Haklau, also known as Hai Liok Hong Ue, Haifeng dialect or Hailufeng Minnan. It is a variety of Southern Min spoken in Shanwei, Guangdong province, China...

Quanzhou dialect has an intelligibility of 87.5% with the Amoy dialect and 79.7% with the urban Zhangzhou dialect. Before the 19th century, the dialect of Quanzhou...

enclaves of Min in Zhongshan, the others being Sanxiang and Nanlang. Here is some history of LongDu dialect 隆都话： https://www.mychinaroots.com/report/demo/gazetteer...

The Wenchang dialect (simplified Chinese: 文昌话; traditional Chinese: 文昌話; pinyin: Wénchānghuà) is a dialect of Hainanese spoken in Wenchang, a county-level...

similar to Hokkien spoken in Amoy, Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou, as well as dialectal forms used in Southeast Asia, such as Singaporean Hokkien, Penang Hokkien...

The Qingdao dialect is the local dialect of the city of Qingdao and nearby towns, in China's Shandong Province. Often characterized as requiring a "fat...

which he calls Old Southern Chinese. He argues that this dialect belonged to the group of dialects known as Wu (吳) or Jiangdong (江東) in the Western Jin period...