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    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...
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    Shantou, alternately romanized as Swatow and sometimes known as Santow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total...
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  • Fuzhou. The following lists translations in the Amoy, Shantou, Teochew, and Hainan Junjiahua dialects of Southern Min: Romanized vernacular versions Old...
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    Teochew Min (redirect from Chaozhou dialect)
    parts of Puning and Chaoyang Swatow dialect (汕头话 / 汕頭話), spoken in urban Shantou (Jinping and Longhu) Raoping dialect (饶平话 / 饒平話), spoken in Raoping County...
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    Teochew, is a city in the eastern Guangdong province of China. It borders Shantou to the south, Jieyang to the southwest, Meizhou to the northwest, the province...
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  • growth in anti-foreign feeling, but Dryburgh managed to learn the Shantou dialect in two years and then started work as a teacher at the Sok Tek Girls'...
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    The following is a list of Sinitic languages and their dialects. For a traditional dialectological overview, see also varieties of Chinese. "Chinese" is...
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    Chaoshan (category Shantou)
    Min Nan Chaoshan dialect (潮汕话). The region, also known as Chiushan in Cantonese, consists of the cities Chaozhou, Jieyang and Shantou. It differs linguistically...
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  • Queshi (category Shantou)
    pinyin: Quèshí; Chaozhou dialect: Kak-tsio̍h) is a town-level sub-district under the jurisdiction of Haojiang District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province...
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    Southern Min (redirect from Minnan dialect)
    of /m/, /n/, /ŋ/, and /~/. Both Hokkien and Chaoshan (Teochew and Shantou dialects) have romanized writing systems and also respective Chinese characters...
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    Hokkien (redirect from Hokkien (dialect))
    emigrants from Swatow [Shantou]." In modern times though, a mixed dialect descended from the Quanzhou, Amoy, and Zhangzhou dialects, leaning a little closer...
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    the church for his nearly four decades of service to their mission at Shantou. During his tenure at the mission he made numerous lasting contributions...
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  • of the natural approach for himself, Brown attempted to learn the Shantou dialect of Chinese by setting up classes with the same format of the AUA natural...
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  • by Donald MacIver (1852-1910) in 1905 at Shantou and was titled A Chinese-English dictionary : Hakka-dialect, as spoken in Kwang-tung province. He noted...
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    International Airport. It replaced the Shantou Waisha Airport on 15 November 2011. Jieyang is located on the Guangzhou–Meizhou–Shantou Railway. The Chaoshan Min is...
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    areas. Related Yue dialects are spoken in most of the western half of the province. The area comprising the cities of Chaozhou, Shantou and Jieyang in coastal...
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    River and Han River reach Chaozhou and Shantou. The Meixian dialect is considered the standard Hakka dialect, along with the neighboring Mei County and...
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    Min Chinese (redirect from Min dialect)
    Fujian. Amoy Hokkien is the prestige dialect of Hokkien in Fujian, while a majority of Taiwanese speak a dialect called Taiwanese Hokkien or simply Taiwanese...
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    Philippine Hokkien is a dialect of the Hokkien language of the Southern Min branch of Min Chinese descended directly from Old Chinese of the Sinitic family...
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  • dialect version of the Bible. Pastor Chung brought the Shantou Hakka Bible copies to Taiwan, but the substantial variances between the Hakka dialects...
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    "Swatow" or Shantou in Guangdong province refers to Shantou dialect, a Southern Min variety, "Amoy" or Xiamen in Fujian province to Amoy dialect, another...
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    originating in Shantou, Guangdong Province, China. It is known for its shape and flavor. First appearing in Chaoyang District in Shantou, Hao kuih is generally...
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    Dahao (category Shantou)
    Dahao (達濠 Dáháo) is a suburban area of Shantou, China, located along the Haojiang River in the eastern coastal portion of Guangdong Province. The area...
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  • southern Fujian, and Chaozhou, Jieyang and Shantou in eastern Guangdong They divided the inland dialects into two subgroups: Northern Min including Jianyang...
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    Nan'ao County (category Shantou)
    Namoa[citation needed], is an island and county of the prefecture-level city of Shantou in Guangdong Province, China. The county spans a land area of 114.74 square...
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    Singapore. Lim was of Peranakan descent, with ancestry from Chenghai District, Shantou in Guangdong, China. He was a rubber magnate and was nicknamed the "pineapple...
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    Karamay (redirect from Karamay dialect)
    (Hui) Gannan (Tibetan) Guangdong *★Guangzhou ★Shenzhen Shaoguan Zhuhai Shantou Foshan Jiangmen Zhanjiang Maoming Zhaoqing Huizhou Meizhou Yangjiang Shanwei...
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    Toi4saan1), alternately romanized in Cantonese as Toishan or Toisan, in local dialect as Hoisan, and formerly known as Xinning or Sunning (新寧), is a county-level...
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    Hengyang (section Dialect)
    by Hengyang Nanyue Airport. Hengyang dialect (Xiang - Lao Xiang湘语-老湘语; Gan赣语; Southwest Mandarin西南官话): the dialects of Hengyang city, Hengyang county and...
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    Zibo (section Dialect)
    respectively. The Zibo dialect has classical features of Northern Chinese but also has specific characteristics of its own. In Zibo dialect, points of articulation...
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