Siyi Yue
Siyi | |||||||||||||||||
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Seiyap, Sze Yup | |||||||||||||||||
Native to | Guangdong, China; Sze Yup Chinese communities in Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and the Americas. | ||||||||||||||||
Region | Sze Yup | ||||||||||||||||
Native speakers | 3.9 million (2010)[citation needed] | ||||||||||||||||
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ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) | ||||||||||||||||
ISO 639-6 | siiy | ||||||||||||||||
Glottolog | siyi1236 | ||||||||||||||||
Linguasphere | 77-AAA-mb | ||||||||||||||||
![]() Siyi (lower right), among other Yue and Pinghua groups in Guangxi and Guangdong | |||||||||||||||||
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Siyi (Seiyap or Sze Yup in Cantonese; Chinese:
Etymology[edit]
The name "Sze Yup" or "Seiyap" (Chinese:
Since a fifth county, Heshan, was added to the prefecture in 1983, this region is referred to as the "Five Counties" (Chinese:
It has also been called Delta Cantonese[1] because all the aforementioned counties are in the Pearl River Delta.
Geographic distribution[edit]
The Siyi dialect is mainly distributed along the drainage basin of the Tan river (Chinese: 潭江), as well as part of the region west of the main stream of the Xi River, near to the confluence of the two rivers. Most of the region in which Siyi is spoken is administered by the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen, including the Jiangmen city districts of Jianghai, Pengjiang and Xinhui, as well as the county-level cities of Taishan, Kaiping, Enping and the southeastern part of Heshan, but the dialect is also spoken in parts of Zhuhai, the town of Guzhen in Zhongshan and the town of Jun'an in Foshan. In terms of geographic extremes, Siyi is spoken furthest north in Yayao (
References[edit]
- ^ Luk, Bernard H. K. "The Chinese Communities of Toronto: Their Languages and Mass Media." In: The Chinese in Ontario. Polyphony: The Bulletin of the Multicultural History Society of Ontario. Volume 15, 2000. Start p. 46. CITED: p. 47 (Archive).
Further reading[edit]
- Cheng, Theresa M. (1973). "The phonology of Taishan". Journal of Chinese Linguistics. 1: 256–322.
- Lee, Gina (1993). Comparative, Diachronic and Experimental Perspectives on the Interaction Between Tone and the Vowel in Standard Cantonese (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). Ohio State University.
- McCoy, John (1966). Szeyap Data for a First Approximation of Proto-Cantonese (Ph.D. thesis). Cornell University.