Manjiang dialect explained

Manjiang
Nativename:蠻講, 蠻話
States:China
Region:southeastern Zhejiang
Date:2012
Familycolor:Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:Sinitic
Fam3:Chinese
Fam4:Min
Fam5:Coastal Min
Fam6:Eastern Min
Ancestor:Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Ancestor2:Old Chinese
Ancestor3:Proto-Min
Isoexception:dialect
Glotto:none
Lingua:79-AAA-ia

Manjiang, also known as Manhua, is an Eastern Min dialect spoken mainly in Taishun and Cangnan Counties in Wenzhou, as well as parts of Qingyuan County in Lishui, in southeastern 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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