Manjiang dialect
Appearance
Taishun Manjiang | |
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泰順蠻講, 蠻講, 蠻話 | |
Native to | Southern China |
Region | Taishun and Cangnan, Wenzhou, Zhejiang |
Sino-Tibetan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | None |
Man or Mango (simplified Chinese: 蛮话; traditional Chinese: 蠻話; pinyin: Mánhuà; lit. 'Man speech'), also known as Taishun Manjiang (simplified Chinese: 泰顺蛮讲; traditional Chinese: 泰順蠻講; pinyin: Tàishùn Mánjiǎng), is an Eastern Min dialect spoken in Taishun and Cangnan counties of Wenzhou prefecture in Southeast Zhejiang province.
As a dialect of Eastern Min, Manjiang is very distant from major Chinese varieties such as Mandarin and Cantonese, and displays very significant elements of a substratal indigenous language, perhaps belonging to the Austroasiatic or Tai–Kadai language families.
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