Tingzhou dialect

Tingzhou dialect
Tingzhou dialect
汀なぎさ州しゅう片へん
Region	western Fujian
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Hakka–Gan? Hakka–She? Hakka Tingzhou dialect; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Changting;
Writing system	Chinese characters; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
ISO 639-6	tigz
Glottolog	ting1250

The Tingzhou dialect (Chinese: 汀なぎさ州しゅう片へん; pinyin: Tīngzhōupiàn) is a group of Hakka dialects spoken in Longyan and Sanming (historically Tingzhou), southwestern Fujian. Tingzhou includes the Hakka dialects spoken in the counties originally under the jurisdiction of Tingzhou: Changting (Tingzhou), Ninghua, Qingliu, Liancheng, Wuping, Shanghang, Yongding and Mingxi. The Changting dialect is generally regarded as the representative dialect of this branch of Hakka.^[1]

References[edit]

^ Luo, Meizhen 罗美珍めずらし; Lin, Lifang 林立りんりつ芳かおる; Rao, Changrong 饶长溶, eds. (2004). Kèjiāhuà tōngyòng cídiǎn 客きゃく家か话通用つうよう词典 (in Chinese). Guangzhou: Zhongshan daxue chubanshe.