The Nanlang dialect is a variant of the
Eastern Min
Eastern Min or Min Dong (, Foochow Romanized: ) is a branch of the Min group of the Chinese languages of China. The prestige form and most commonly cited representative form is the Fuzhou dialect, the speech of the capital of Fujian.
Geogra ...
Chinese predominantly spoken in
Nanlang a town within
Zhongshan
Zhongshan ( zh, c=中山 ), alternately romanized via Cantonese as Chungshan, is a prefecture-level city in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, China. As of the 2020 census, the whole city with 4,418,060 inhabitants is n ...
in the
Pearl River Delta
The Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region is the low-lying area surrounding the Pearl River estuary, where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea. Referred to as the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area in official documents, ...
of
Guangdong
) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...
, China. 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.
[ pp. 1–2.]
Notes
References
Guangdong
Southern Min
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