Teochew Min
| Teochew | |
|---|---|
| Chaozhou, Chaoshan, Teo-Swa | |
| 潮州話 / 潮汕話 / 潮語[1] | |
| Native to | China, overseas communities (particularly in Southeast Asia) |
| Region | Eastern Guangdong (Chaoshan) |
| Ethnicity | Teochew people |
Native speakers | About 14 million in Chaoshan (2004)[2] more than 5 million overseas |
Early forms | Proto-Sino-Tibetan
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| Dialects |
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| Chinese characters Teochew Romanization Peng'im | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | chao1238 |
| Linguasphere | 79-AAA-ji |
Teochew (Teo-Swa) within the Southern Min languages | |
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| Traditional Chinese | 潮州話 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 潮州话 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Teochew,[ii] also known as Swatow[iii] or Teo-Swa[iv] after its two best-known dialects, is a Southern Min language spoken by the Teochew people in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong and by their diaspora around the world. It is sometimes referred to as Chiuchow, its Cantonese rendering, due to English romanization by colonial officials and explorers. It is closely related to Hokkien, as it shares some cognates and phonology with Hokkien.
Teochew preserves many Old Chinese pronunciations and vocabulary that have been lost in some of the other modern varieties of Chinese. As such, Teochew is described as one of the most conservative Chinese languages.[6]
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- ^ Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1984), Middle Chinese: A study in Historical Phonology, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, p. 3, ISBN 978-0-7748-0192-8
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (July 10, 2023). "Glottolog 4.8 - Min". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Archived from the original on October 13, 2023. Retrieved October 13, 2023.
- ^ Yap, Foong Ha; Grunow-Hårsta, Karen; Wrona, Janick, eds. (2011). Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives. John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. 11. ISBN 978-9027206770.
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