Sanxiang dialect

{{Short description|Southern Min dialect island in Sanxiang}} {{Infobox language | name = Sanxiang | altname = 三鄉話 | nativename = Sahiu | states = [[China]] | region = Mainly in [[Sanxiang]], southern [[Guangdong]] province. | speakers = ? | familycolor = Sino-Tibetan | fam2 = [[Sinitic languages|Sinitic]] | fam3 = [[Chinese language|Chinese]] | fam4 = [[Min Chinese|Min]] | fam5 = [[Min Chinese#Coastal Min|Coastal Min]] | fam6 = [[Southern Min]] | script = [[Chinese characters]] | fam7 = ([[Zhongshan Min]]) | ancestor = [[Proto-Sino-Tibetan language|Proto-Sino-Tibetan]] | ancestor2 = [[Old Chinese]]{{efn|name=minClassification|Min is believed to have split from Old Chinese, rather than Middle Chinese like other varieties of Chinese.<ref>{{citation |last=Mei |first=Tsu-lin |author1-link=Mei Tsu-lin |title=Tones and prosody in Middle Chinese and the origin of the rising tone |journal=Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies |volume=30 |year=1970 |pages=86–110 |doi=10.2307/2718766 |jstor=2718766}}</ref><ref>{{citation |last=Pulleyblank |first=Edwin G. |author-link=Edwin G. Pulleyblank |title=Middle Chinese: A study in Historical Phonology |year=1984 |page=3 |location=Vancouver |publisher=University of British Columbia Press |isbn=978-0-7748-0192-8}}</ref><ref name="glottoMin">{{Cite journal |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/minn1248 |title=Glottolog 4.8 - Min |date=2023-07-10 |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=[[Glottolog]] |last1=Hammarström |first1=Harald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013171747/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/minn1248 |archive-date=2023-10-13 |url-status=live |publisher=[[Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology]] |author-link=Harald Hammarström |last2=Forkel |first2=Robert |publication-place=[[Leipzig]] |doi=10.5281/zenodo.7398962 |last3=Haspelmath |first3=Martin |author-link3=Martin Haspelmath |last4=Bank |first4=Sebastian |doi-access=free}}</ref>}} | ancestor3 = [[Proto-Min]] | isoexception = dialect | glotto = sanx1234 | glottorefname = Sanxiang | map = Zhongshan map2005.jpg | mapcaption = {{color box|#c8ab37}} Sanxiang dialect, at the southern periphery of Zhongshan City | iso3 = none }}

'''Sanxiang''' (in [[Cantonese]] ''Samheung'', in the language itself ''Sahiu'') is a [[Min Chinese|Min]] variety of [[Southern Min]]<ref name="Bodman1982">{{cite journal |author-link=Nicholas Bodman |year=1982 |title=The Namlong Dialect, a Northern Min Outlier in Zhongshan Xian and the Influence of Cantonese on its Lexicon and Phonology |url=http://nthur.lib.nthu.edu.tw/dspace/retrieve/73345/JA01_1982_p01.pdf |journal=Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=1–19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203094044/http://nthur.lib.nthu.edu.tw/dspace/retrieve/73345/JA01_1982_p01.pdf |archive-date=2020-02-03 |given=Nicholas C. |surname=Bodman}}</ref><ref name="Bodman1985">{{cite book | chapter = The Reflexes of Initial Nasals in Proto-Southern Min-Hingua | given = Nicholas C. | surname = Bodman | jstor = 20006706 | title = For Gordon H. Fairbanks | editor-given1 = Veneeta | editor-surname1 = Acson | editor-given2 = Richard L. | editor-surname2 = Leed | series = Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications | volume = 20 | publisher = University of Hawaii Press | year = 1985 | issue = 20 | isbn = 978-0-8248-0992-8|pages=5-6}}</ref><ref name="Minnan">{{Cite web |title=Reclassifying ISO 639-3 [nan]: An Empirical Approach to Mutual Intelligibility and Ethnolinguistic Distinctions |url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KIRINPUTRA/reclassifying-ISO-639-3-nan/main/Reclassifying_ISO_639-3_%5Bnan%5D__An_Empirical_Approach_to_Mutual_Intelligibility_and_Ethnolinguistic_Distinctions.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210919021444/https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KIRINPUTRA/reclassifying-ISO-639-3-nan/main/Reclassifying_ISO_639-3_%5Bnan%5D__An_Empirical_Approach_to_Mutual_Intelligibility_and_Ethnolinguistic_Distinctions.pdf |archive-date=2021-09-19}}</ref> Chinese mostly spoken in [[Sanxiang]] in [[Zhongshan]] in the [[Pearl River Delta]] of [[Guangdong]], China.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Campbell |first=James |title=Zhongshan Sanxiang Dialect Phonology |url=http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/phon/sanxiang.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429161257/http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/phon/sanxiang.php |archive-date=2009-04-29 |access-date=2009-03-25 |website=Glossika |language=en}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=October 2023|reason=The cited source doesn't say any of this.}} Despite its close proximity, Sanxiang is not very closely related to the surrounding dialects in the region, which belong to the [[Yue Chinese|Yue group]], and thus forms a "dialect island" of Min speakers. It is one of three enclaves of [[Zhongshan Min|Min in Zhongshan]], the others being [[Longdu dialect|Longdu]] and [[Nanlang dialect|Nanlang]].<ref name="Bodman1982" /><ref name="Bodman1985" />

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[[Category:Guangdong]] [[Category:Southern Min]]