| Manjiang | |
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| 蠻講, 蠻話 | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | southeasternZhejiang |
Native speakers | 500,000 (2012)[1] |
Early forms | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
| Linguasphere | 79-AAA-ia |
Manjiang (simplified Chinese:蛮讲;traditional Chinese:蠻講;pinyin:Mánjiǎng), also known asManhua (simplified Chinese:蛮话;traditional Chinese:蠻話;pinyin:Mánhuà;lit. 'Man speech'), is anEastern Min dialect spoken mainly inTaishun andCangnan Counties inWenzhou, as well as parts ofQingyuan County inLishui, in southeasternZhejiang province.[1]
As a dialect of Eastern Min, Manjiang is very distant from majorChinese varieties such asMandarin andCantonese, and displays very significant elements of a substratal indigenous language, perhaps belonging to theAustroasiatic orTai–Kadai language families.
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