Chaoshan dialect

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The Chaoshan dialect, also known as Teochew, is a Southern Min Chinese variety spoken primarily in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong and by large overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia and beyond.

All labels observed (8)

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese dialect
Sinitic language variety
Southern Min Chinese variety
alternativeName Chaoshan Min
Chaoshan dialect
surface form: Chaozhou dialect

Teo-Swa
Teochew
closelyRelatedTo Hokkien
Quanzhou dialect
Zhangzhou dialect
hasGlottocode teoc1235
hasISOCode nan (macrolanguage code for Min Nan Chinese)
hasPhonologicalFeature complex tone sandhi
contrastive nasal finals
distinction between checked and unchecked tones
preservation of final stops -p -t -k
rich tone system
voiceless sonorants in some varieties
hasRomanization POJ-based Teochew romanization
Peng'im
historicalOrigin descended from ancient Min Chinese
influencedBy Cantonese
Hakka language
surface form: Hakka Chinese

Mandarin Chinese
Middle Chinese
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages
mutuallyIntelligibleWith Swatow dialect
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Cantonese
Mandarin Chinese
regionType coastal dialect of Southern Min
spokenIn Cambodia
Chaoshan region
Chaozhou
Guangdong Province
Hong Kong, China
surface form: Hong Kong

Indonesia
Jieyang
Macau
Malaysia
Myanmar
China
surface form: People's Republic of China

Philippines
Shantou
Singapore
Taiwan, Province of China
surface form: Taiwan

Thailand
Viet Nam
surface form: Vietnam

eastern Guangdong Province
overseas Chinese communities
subgroupOf Min Chinese
Southern Min
usedBy Chaoshan people
usedFor business communication in Chaoshan region
clan and ancestral rituals
daily communication
religious practices
usedIn folk songs
radio broadcasting
television dramas
traditional opera
writingSystem Chinese characters
Latin alphabet romanization

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Teochew hasAlternativeName Chaoshan dialect
Chiuchow alternativeName Chaoshan dialect
this entity surface form: Chaozhou dialect
Chiuchow closelyRelatedTo Chaoshan dialect
this entity surface form: Shantou dialect
Chiuchow closelyRelatedTo Chaoshan dialect
this entity surface form: Swatow dialect
nan appliesTo Chaoshan dialect
this entity surface form: Chaoshan Chinese
Chaoshan culture language Chaoshan dialect
Quanzhou dialect hasAlternativeName Chaoshan dialect
this entity surface form: Choan-chiu dialect
Zhangzhou dialect hasAlternativeName Chaoshan dialect
this entity surface form: Changchew dialect
Chaoshan dialect alternativeName Chaoshan dialect
this entity surface form: Chaozhou dialect
Chaoshan Min hasVariety Chaoshan dialect
this entity surface form: Swatow dialect
Chaoshan Min hasVariety Chaoshan dialect
this entity surface form: Chaozhou dialect
Chaoshan Min hasVariety Chaoshan dialect
this entity surface form: Jieyang dialect