{{Short description|Chinese varieties}} {{Infobox language |name=Junjiahua |nativename=軍家話 |states=People's Republic of China<br>Taiwan |region=Taiwan: Taoyuan<br>Guangdong: Huizhou, Lufeng<br>Hainan: Sanya, Changjiang, Danzhou, Dongfang, 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 |fam3=Chinese |fam4=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 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, and Lingao.
Some also consider the Dapenghua spoken in Dapeng Peninsula of Shenzhen to be a form of Junjiahua.
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Category:Endangered languages of China Category:Varieties of Chinese Category:Languages of China Category:Languages of Taiwan Category:Military life Category:Languages attested from the 2nd millennium Category:Military history of the Ming dynasty Category:Endangered Sino-Tibetan languages