Manjiang dialect

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Manjiang
蠻講, 蠻話
Native toChina
Regionsoutheastern Zhejiang
Native speakers
500,000 (2012)[1]
Early forms
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone
Linguasphere79-AAA-ia

Manjiang (

Cangnan Counties in Wenzhou, as well as parts of Qingyuan County in Lishui, in southeastern Zhejiang province.[1]

As a dialect of Eastern Min, Manjiang is very distant from major

Tai–Kadai
language families.

Notes

  1. ^ Min is believed to have split from Old Chinese, rather than Middle Chinese like other varieties of Chinese.[2][3][4]

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