Nanlang dialect, at the eastern edge of Zhongshan City
The Nanlang dialect is a variety of
Eastern Min Chinese mostly spoken in
Nanlang in
Zhongshan in the
Pearl River Delta of
Guangdong, China.[5] Despite its close proximity, Nanlang is not very closely related to the surrounding dialects in the region, which belong to the
Yue group. As such, Nanlang forms a "dialect island" of Min speakers. It is one of three enclaves of
Min in Zhongshan, the others being
Longdu and
Sanxiang.[6]
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,
JSTOR2718766
^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.