| Sanxiang | |
| Also Known As: | 三鄉話 |
| Nativename: | Sahiu |
| States: | China |
| Region: | Mainly in Sanxiang, southern Guangdong province. |
| Speakers: | ? |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | Sinitic |
| Fam3: | Chinese |
| Fam4: | Min |
| Fam5: | Coastal Min |
| Fam6: | Southern Min |
| Script: | Chinese characters |
| Fam7: | (Zhongshan Min) |
| Ancestor: | Proto-Sino-Tibetan |
| Ancestor2: | Old Chinese |
| Ancestor3: | Proto-Min |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Glotto: | sanx1234 |
| Glottorefname: | Sanxiang |
| Map: | Zhongshan map2005.jpg |
| Mapcaption: | Sanxiang dialect, at the southern periphery of Zhongshan City |
| Iso3: | none |
| Iso3comment: | (is proposed[1]) |
Sanxiang (in Cantonese Samheung, in the language itself Sahiu) is a Min variety of either Southern Min[2] or Eastern Min Chinese mostly spoken in Sanxiang in Zhongshan in the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong, China.[3] Despite its close proximity, Sanxiang is not very closely related to the surrounding dialects in the region, which belong to the Yue group, and thus forms a "dialect island" of Min speakers. It is one of three enclaves of Min in Zhongshan, the others being Longdu and Nanlang.[4] [5]
An Empirical Approach to Mutual Intelligibility and Ethnolinguistic Distinctions ]
. https://web.archive.org/web/20210919021444/https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KIRINPUTRA/reclassifying-ISO-639-3-nan/main/Reclassifying_ISO_639-3_%5Bnan%5D__An_Empirical_Approach_to_Mutual_Intelligibility_and_Ethnolinguistic_Distinctions.pdf . 2021-09-19.