# Sanxiang dialect

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Southern Min dialect island in Sanxiang

Sanxiang 三鄉話 Sahiu Native to China Region Mainly in Sanxiang, southern Guangdong province. Language family Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Min Coastal Min Southern Min (Zhongshan Min) Sanxiang Early forms Proto-Sino-Tibetan Old Chinese[a] Proto-Min Writing system Chinese characters Language codes ISO 639-3 None (mis) Glottolog sanx1234 Sanxiang dialect, at the southern periphery of Zhongshan City

**Sanxiang** (in [Cantonese](/source/Cantonese) *Samheung*, in the language itself *Sahiu*) is a [Min](/source/Min_Chinese) variety of [Southern Min](/source/Southern_Min)[4][5][6] Chinese mostly spoken in [Sanxiang](/source/Sanxiang) in [Zhongshan](/source/Zhongshan) in the [Pearl River Delta](/source/Pearl_River_Delta) of [Guangdong](/source/Guangdong), China.[7][*[failed verification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability)*] Despite its close proximity, Sanxiang is not very closely related to the surrounding dialects in the region, which belong to the [Yue group](/source/Yue_Chinese), and thus forms a "dialect island" of Min speakers. It is one of three enclaves of [Min in Zhongshan](/source/Zhongshan_Min), the others being [Longdu](/source/Longdu_dialect) and [Nanlang](/source/Nanlang_dialect).[4][5]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-minClassification_4-0)** Min is believed to have split from Old Chinese, rather than Middle Chinese like other varieties of Chinese.[1][2][3]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Mei, Tsu-lin](/source/Mei_Tsu-lin) (1970), "Tones and prosody in Middle Chinese and the origin of the rising tone", *Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies*, **30**: 86–110, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2307/2718766](https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2718766), [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [2718766](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2718766)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Pulleyblank, Edwin G.](/source/Edwin_G._Pulleyblank) (1984), *Middle Chinese: A study in Historical Phonology*, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, p. 3, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-7748-0192-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7748-0192-8)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-glottoMin_3-0)** [Hammarström, Harald](/source/Harald_Hammarstr%C3%B6m); Forkel, Robert; [Haspelmath, Martin](/source/Martin_Haspelmath); Bank, Sebastian (2023-07-10). ["Glottolog 4.8 - Min"](https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/minn1248). *[Glottolog](/source/Glottolog)*. [Leipzig](/source/Leipzig): [Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology](/source/Max_Planck_Institute_for_Evolutionary_Anthropology). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.5281/zenodo.7398962](https://doi.org/10.5281%2Fzenodo.7398962). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20231013171747/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/minn1248) from the original on 2023-10-13. Retrieved 2023-10-13.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Bodman1982_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Bodman1982_5-1) [Bodman, Nicholas C.](/source/Nicholas_Bodman) (1982). ["The Namlong Dialect, a Northern Min Outlier in Zhongshan Xian and the Influence of Cantonese on its Lexicon and Phonology"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200203094044/http://nthur.lib.nthu.edu.tw/dspace/retrieve/73345/JA01_1982_p01.pdf) (PDF). *Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies*. **14** (1): 1–19. Archived from [the original](http://nthur.lib.nthu.edu.tw/dspace/retrieve/73345/JA01_1982_p01.pdf) (PDF) on 2020-02-03.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Bodman1985_6-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Bodman1985_6-1) Bodman, Nicholas C. (1985). "The Reflexes of Initial Nasals in Proto-Southern Min-Hingua". In Acson, Veneeta; Leed, Richard L. (eds.). *For Gordon H. Fairbanks*. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications. Vol. 20. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 5–6. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-8248-0992-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8248-0992-8). [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [20006706](https://www.jstor.org/stable/20006706).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Minnan_7-0)** ["Reclassifying ISO 639-3 \[nan\]: An Empirical Approach to Mutual Intelligibility and Ethnolinguistic Distinctions"](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) (PDF). Archived from [the original](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) (PDF) on 2021-09-19.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Campbell, James. ["Zhongshan Sanxiang Dialect Phonology"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090429161257/http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/phon/sanxiang.php). *Glossika*. Archived from [the original](http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/phon/sanxiang.php) on 2009-04-29. Retrieved 2009-03-25.

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