Central Min, or Min Zhong (), is a part of the Min group of

varieties of Chinese Chinese, also known as Sinitic, is a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family consisting of hundreds of local varieties, many of which are not mutually intelligible. Variation is particularly strong in the more mountainous southeast of ...

. It is spoken in the valley of the Sha River in

Sanming Sanming (, Foochow Romanized: Săng-mìng), also known as Minzhong (), is a prefecture-level city in western Fujian province, China. It borders Nanping City to the north, Fuzhou City to the east, Quanzhou City to the southeast, Longyan City to t ...

prefecture in the central mountain areas of

Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its c ...

, consisting of

Yong'an Yong'an () is a county-level city in west-central Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It is located on the Sha River, which is a tributary of the Min River. accessed August 14, 2005 Yong'an is located in the west-central part of the pr ...

, the urban area of Sanming ( Sanyuan and Meilie districts) and

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Dialects

Sanming dialect The Sanming dialect (Central Min: 三明事, Mandarin Chinese: 三明話) is a dialect of Central Min Chinese spoken in urban areas of Sanming, a prefecture-level city in Western Fujian Province, China China, officially the People's Repub ...

* Yong'an dialect *

Shaxian dialect Shaxian dialect (Central Min: 沙縣事, Mandarin Chinese: 沙縣話) is a dialect of Central Min Chinese spoken in Sha County, Sanming in Western Fujian Province of China. Phonology Shaxian dialect has 17 initials, 36 rimes and 6 tones. Initial ...

References

* (includes a description of the phonology of the Yong'an dialect) Languages of China {{SinoTibetan-lang-stub