Tingzhou dialect | |
Region: | western Fujian |
Date: | no date |
Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
Fam2: | Sinitic |
Fam3: | Chinese |
Fam4: | Hakka–Gan? |
Fam5: | Hakka–She? |
Fam6: | Hakka |
Isoexception: | dialect |
Iso6: | tigz |
Glotto: | ting1250 |
Glottorefname: | Tingzhou |
Dia1: | Changting |
Script: | Chinese characters Pha̍k-fa-sṳ |
The Tingzhou dialect is a group of Hakka dialects spoken in Longyan and Sanming (historically Tingzhou), southwestern Fujian. Tingzhou includes the Hakka dialects spoken in the counties originally under the jurisdiction of Tingzhou: Changting (Tingzhou), Ninghua, Qingliu, Liancheng, Wuping, Shanghang, Yongding and Mingxi. The Changting dialect is generally regarded as the representative dialect of this branch of Hakka.[1]