Shantou dialect

Shantou dialect
Swatow
汕頭話/Suan¹tao⁵ uê⁷
Native to	China
Region	Mainly in Shantou, southwestern Guangdong province.
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Chinese Min Min Nan Teochew Shantou dialect
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	`shan1244`^[1]
Shantou dialect

The Shantou dialect, formerly known as the Swatow dialect, is a dialect mostly spoken in Shantou in Guangdong, China. It is a sub-dialect of Min Nan Chinese, and sometimes a sub-dialect of Teochew Min.^[2]

References

↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Shantou". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Shantou Dialect entry in Glossika

Fielde, Adele M. (1883). A pronouncing and defining dictionary of the Swatow dialect, arranged according to syllables and tones. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
Fielde, Adele M. (1878). First Lessons in the Swatow Dialect. Swatow: Swatow Printing Office Company. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
Lechler, Rudolf, Samuel Wells Williams , William Duffus (1883). English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Swatow. Swatow: English Presbyterian Mission Press. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
Hsiung-chʻêng, Lin (1886). A handbook of the Swatow vernacular. Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press. Retrieved 2015-04-01.

East Asia	Quanzhou dialect Anxi dialect Hui'an dialect Jinjiang dialect Nan'an dialect Tong'an dialect Amoy dialect Longyan Min Zhangping dialect Taiwanese Hokkien Toubei dialect Zhangzhou dialect Longhai dialect

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Teo-Swa
(Chaoshan)

East Asia	Teochew Raoping dialect Shantou dialect (Swatow) Chenghai dialect Nan'ao dialect Jieyang dialect Chaoyang dialect Puning dialect Huilai dialect Haifeng dialect

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