Nanlang dialect
Appearance
Nanlang | |
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南蓢話 | |
Namlong | |
Native to | China |
Region | Mainly in Nanlang, southern Guangdong province. |
Early forms | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | (znl is proposed[4]) |
Glottolog | nanl1234 |
![]() Nanlang dialect, at the eastern edge of Zhongshan City |
The Nanlang dialect is a variant of the Eastern Min Chinese predominantly spoken in Nanlang a town within Zhongshan in the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong, China.[5] Despite its close proximity, Nanlang is not very closely related to the surrounding dialects in the region, which belong to the Yue group. As such, Nanlang forms a "dialect island" of Min speakers. It is one of three enclaves of Min in Zhongshan, the others being Longdu and Sanxiang.[6]
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[edit]References
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- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2023-07-10). "Glottolog 4.8 - Min". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Archived from the original on 2023-10-13. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
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- ^ Campbell, James. "Zhongshan Nanlang Dialect Phonology". Glossika. Archived from the original on 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
- ^ Bodman, Nicholas C. (1982). "The Namlong Dialect, a Northern Min Outlier in Zhongshan Xian and the Influence of Cantonese on its Lexicon and Phonology". Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies. 14 (1): 1–19. pp. 1–2.