Qingtian dialect

Qingtian
	青田話
Spoken in	People's Republic of China
Region	Qingtian country, Lishui prefecture, Zhejiang province
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Chinese Wu Chuqu Qingtian; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
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Qingtian dialect (=青田話) is a spoken dialect of the Chinese language. It is spoken in Qingtian county of Lishui prefecture in Zhejiang, China. Qingtian dialect is of the Chuqu Wu dialects spoken in Quzhou and Lishui prefectures of Zhejiang.^[1]

It is also often spoken by overseas Chinese who are from Qingtian.

[edit] References

^ Charles Bazerman (2009). Charles Bazerman. ed. Traditions of writing research (illustrated ed.). Taylor & Francis. p. 154. ISBN 0415993377. http://books.google.com/books?id=3qYxCjtvb24C&q=qing+tian+hua#v=snippet&q=qing%20tian%20hua%20zhejiang&f=false. Retrieved 4th of November, 2011. "Method Participants Eighty-four children participate in the study: 28 Chinese children, mostly from Zhejiang—a province south to Shanghai, speakers of Qing Tian Hua; 26 Moroccan children mostly from North Morocco, speakers of Darija— ie, Moroccan Arabic;"

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