Sanxiang dialect

Sanxiang
三鄉話
Sahiu
Native to	China
Region	Mainly in Sanxiang, southern Guangdong province.
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Min Coastal Min Southern Min (Zhongshan Min) Sanxiang
Early forms	Proto-Sino-Tibetan Old Chinese [a] Proto-Min
Writing system	Chinese characters
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	sanx1234
Sanxiang dialect, at the southern periphery of Zhongshan City

Sanxiang (in Cantonese Samheung, in the language itself Sahiu) is a Min variety of Southern Min ^{[4] [5] [6]} Chinese mostly spoken in Sanxiang in Zhongshan in the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong, China. ^{[7] [ 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. ^{[4] [5]}

Notes

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

References

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4. Bodman, Nicholas C. (1982). "The Namlong Dialect, a Northern Min Outlier in Zhongshan Xian and the Influence of Cantonese on its Lexicon and Phonology" (PDF). Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies. 14 (1): 1–19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-02-03.
5. Bodman, Nicholas C. (1985). "The Reflexes of Initial Nasals in Proto-Southern Min-Hingua". In Acson, Veneeta; Leed, Richard L. (eds.). For Gordon H. Fairbanks. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications. Vol. 20. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 5–6. ISBN   978-0-8248-0992-8. JSTOR   20006706.
6. "Reclassifying ISO 639-3 [nan]: An Empirical Approach to Mutual Intelligibility and Ethnolinguistic Distinctions" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-09-19.
7. Campbell, James. "Zhongshan Sanxiang Dialect Phonology". Glossika. Archived from the original on 2009-04-29. Retrieved 2009-03-25.