Nanlang dialect

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Nanlang
南蓢話
Namlong
Native to China
RegionMainly in Nanlang, southern Guangdong province.
Early forms
Language codes
ISO 639-3 (znl is proposed [4] )
Glottolog nanl1234
Zhongshan map2005.jpg
  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]

Notes

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

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