{{Short description|Chinese varieties}} {{Infobox language |name=Junjiahua |nativename=軍家話 |states=[[China|People's Republic of China]]<br>[[Taiwan]] |region=[[Taiwan]]: [[Taoyuan County, Taiwan|Taoyuan]]<br>[[Guangdong]]: [[Huizhou]], [[Lufeng, Guangdong|Lufeng]]<br>[[Hainan]]: [[Sanya]], [[Changjiang Li Autonomous County|Changjiang]], [[Danzhou]], [[Dongfang, Hainan|Dongfang]], [[Lingao County|Lingao]]<br>[[Guangxi]]<br>[[Fujian]]<br>etc.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tái Yuè liǎng de jūnhuà de diàochá yánjiū |script-title=zh:台粵兩地軍話的調查研究 |trans-title=An Investigation of Military Vernaculars in Taiwan and Guangdong |url=http://ir.lis.nsysu.edu.tw:8080/bitstream/987654321/28533/1/台粵兩地軍話的調查研究.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214020251/http://ir.lis.nsysu.edu.tw:8080/bitstream/987654321/28533/1/台粵兩地軍話的調查研究.pdf |archive-date=2019-12-14 |language=zh}}</ref> |speakers=~150,000{{cn|date=January 2023}} |date=no date |familycolor= Sino-Tibetan |fam1=[[Sino-Tibetan]] |fam2=[[Sinitic languages|Sinitic]] |fam3=[[Chinese language|Chinese]] |fam4=[[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]] |iso3=none |iso6=jnha |glotto=none | script = [[Chinese characters]] }}
'''Junjiahua''', '''Junhua''',<ref>Qiu, Xueqiang 丘學強. 2005. ''Junhua yanjiu'' 軍話研究. Beijing: Chinese Social Sciences Academy Press 中國社會科學出版社.</ref> '''Junsheng,''' or "'''military speech'''" in English, is any of a number of isolated dialects in [[Guangdong]], [[Guangxi]], [[Hainan]], [[Fujian]], and [[Taiwan]]. Some{{Who|date=September 2023}} believe that they are a [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]] dialect group that assimilated to local Chinese variants in southern China.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}} Junhua began as a [[lingua franca]] in the army, being spoken between soldiers dispatched to various parts of China during the [[Ming dynasty]]. It was subsequently spread to areas around the camps where the army settled. It is now an [[endangered language]]. In [[Hainan]], it is still spoken by about 100,000 people. These speakers mainly live in [[Sanya]] (in Yacheng 崖城 and other locations<ref>Liu, Chuntao 劉春陶. 2021. ''Hainan Sanya Yacheng Junhua yuanliu yanjiu'' 海南三亞崖城軍話源流研究. Nankai University Press 南開大學出版社.</ref>), [[Changjiang Li Autonomous County]], [[Danzhou]], [[Dongfang, Hainan|Dongfang]], and [[Lingao County|Lingao]].
Some also consider the [[Dapeng dialect|Dapenghua]] spoken in [[Dapeng Peninsula]] of [[Shenzhen]] to be a form of Junjiahua.
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