Danzhou dialect
Danzhou dialect | |
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儋州話 | |
Native to | China |
Region | Hainan (Danzhou) |
Native speakers | 700,000 (2010)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
1mk-dan | |
Glottolog | None |
Linguasphere | 79-AAA-naa |
The Danzhou dialect (simplified Chinese: 儋州话; traditional Chinese: 儋州話; pinyin: Dānzhōuhuà), locally known as Xianghua (simplified Chinese: 乡话; traditional Chinese: 鄉話; pinyin: xiānghuà; lit. 'village speech'), is a Chinese variety of uncertain affiliation spoken in the area of Danzhou in northwestern Hainan, China.[2] It was classified as Yue in the Language Atlas of China,[3][4] but in more recent work is treated as an unclassified southern variety.[5]
Varieties[]
Regional varieties are Bei'an 北岸音, Shuinan 水南音, Zhoujia 昼家音, Shanshang 山上音, Haitou 海头音, and Wuhu 五湖音.[citation needed]
Distribution[]
The Danzhou dialect is spoken in the following areas of Hainan (Hainan 1994:253).[6]
- most of Danzhou 儋州市 except for the southeastern part of Danzhou
- Changjiang Li Autonomous County 昌江县 (northern coast)
- Nanluo 南罗 and Haiwei 海尾 area
- Xiyuan 西缘, Shiluo Town 石碌镇, Changjiang city
- northern Baisha Li Autonomous County 白沙县 (in just over 10 villages near the border with Danzhou)
- peripheral villages of Dongfang 东方市, Ledong 乐东, Qiongzhong 琼中, and Sanya 三亚
References[]
- ^ 与古汉语相通的儋州话. Archived from the original on 2015-07-11. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
- ^ Ting, Pang-hsin (1980). "The Tan-Chou dialect of Hainan". Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale. 8 (1): 5–27. doi:10.3406/clao.1980.1079.
- ^ Chen, Bo (1986). "海南语言的分区" [Language distribution on Hainan]. Humanities & Social Sciences Journal of Hainan University. 2: 87–97. ISSN 1004-1710.
- ^ Wurm, Stephen Adolphe; Li, Rong; Baumann, Theo; Lee, Mei W. (1987). Language Atlas of China. Longman. Chart B12. ISBN 978-962-359-085-3.
- ^ Kurpaska, Maria (2010). Chinese Language(s): A Look Through the Prism of "The Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects". Walter de Gruyter. p. 73. ISBN 978-3-11-021914-2.
- ^ Hainan Gazetteer Committee 海南省地方史志办公室编. 1994. Hainan dialect gazetteer 海南省志 第二卷 人口志: 方言志宗教志. Haikou: Hainan Publishing Company 海南出版公司.
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