Sanxiang dialect

Sanxiang (in Cantonese Samheung, in the language itself Sahiu) is a Min variety of either Southern Min^[5]^{[clarification needed]}orEastern Min^{[clarification needed]} Chinese mostly spoken in SanxianginZhongshan in the Pearl River DeltaofGuangdong, China.^[6]^{[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.^[7]^[8]

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	(`zsh` is proposed^[4])
Glottolog	`sanx1234`
Sanxiang dialect, at the southern periphery of Zhongshan City

Notes

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

References

^ Mei, Tsu-lin (1970), "Tones and prosody in Middle Chinese and the origin of the rising tone", Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 30: 86–110, doi:10.2307/2718766, JSTOR 2718766

^ Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1984), Middle Chinese: A study in Historical Phonology, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, p. 3, ISBN 978-0-7748-0192-8

^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2023-07-10). "Glottolog 4.8 - Min". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Archived from the original on 2023-10-13. Retrieved 2023-10-13.

^ "Change Request Documentation: 2021-045". 31 August 2021. Retrieved 30 May 2022.

^ "Reclassifying ISO 639-3 [nan]: An Empirical Approach to Mutual Intelligibility and Ethnolinguistic Distinctions" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-09-19.

^ Campbell, James. "Zhongshan Sanxiang Dialect Phonology". Glossika. Archived from the original on 2009-04-29. Retrieved 2009-03-25.

^ Bodman, Nicholas C. (1982). "The Namlong Dialect, a Northern Min Outlier in Zhongshan Xian and the Influence of Cantonese on its Lexicon and Phonology". Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies. 14 (1): 1–19. pp. 1–2.

^ 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. 2–20. ISBN 978-0-8248-0992-8. JSTOR 20006706. pp. 5–6.

This China-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This Sino-Tibetan languages-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Last edited on 27 February 2024,

at 17:25

Languages

●This page was last edited on 27

February 2024, at 17:25 (UTC).

●Content is available under CC B

Y-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted.