Shantou dialect
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| Shantou dialect | |
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| 汕頭話/Suan¹tao⁵ uê⁷ | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Mainly in Shantou, southwestern Guangdong province. |
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Linguist List | nan-sha |
Shantou dialect
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The Shantou dialect, formerly known as the Swatow dialect, is a dialect mostly spoken in Shantou in Guangdong, China. It is a sub-dialect of Min Nan Chinese, and sometimes a sub-dialect of Teochew Min.[1]
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- A pronouncing and defining dictionary of the Swatow (Shantou) dialect published in 1883 by the American Presbyterian mission press in Shanghai.
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