Tuhua dialects
| Tuhua dialects | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 土話 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 土话 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Dirt/Local/Rural Speech | ||||||||
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Tuhua are varieties of Chinese spoken in the Nanling area of southern China. Highly unusual and mutually unintelligible with Mandarin, Cantonese, and Xiang, their precise origin and classification are disputed.
Two varieties are identified:[1][2]
- Xiangnan Tuhua in southern Hunan
- Shaozhou or Yuebei Tuhua around Shaoguan in northern Guangdong
References
[edit]- ↑ Xiong, Zhenghui; Zhang, Zhenxing, eds. (2012). Zhōngguó yǔyán dìtú jí: Hànyǔ fāngyán juǎn 中国语言地图集:汉语方言卷 [Language Atlas of China: Chinese dialects] (in Chinese) (2nd ed.). Beijing: The Commercial Press. Map B1-22. ISBN 978-7-10-007054-6.
- ↑ Hou, Xingquan; Li, Yinghao; Shao, Yi; Kong, Jiangping (2019). The Languages and Dialects of the Nanling Area in China. Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series. Vol. 29. pp. 264–285. JSTOR 27052283.
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