Sanxiang dialect

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Sanxiang
三鄉話
Sahiu
Native toChina
RegionMainly in Sanxiang, southern Guangdong province.
Early forms
Chinese characters
Language codes
ISO 639-3(zsh is proposed[4])
Glottologsanx1234
  Sanxiang dialect, at the southern periphery of Zhongshan City

Sanxiang (in Cantonese Samheung, in the language itself Sahiu) is a Min variety of either Southern Min[5][clarification needed] or Eastern Min[clarification needed] Chinese mostly spoken in Sanxiang in Zhongshan in the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong, China.[6][failed verification] Despite its close 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" of Min speakers. It is one of three enclaves of Min in Zhongshan, the others being Longdu and Nanlang.[7][8]

Notes

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

References

  1. JSTOR 2718766
  2. from the original on 2023-10-13. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  3. ^ "Change Request Documentation: 2021-045". 31 August 2021. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Reclassifying ISO 639-3 [nan]: An Empirical Approach to Mutual Intelligibility and Ethnolinguistic Distinctions" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-09-19.
  5. ^ Campbell, James. "Zhongshan Sanxiang Dialect Phonology". Glossika. Archived from the original on 2009-04-29. Retrieved 2009-03-25.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. JSTOR 20006706
    . pp. 5–6.