This article is about the dialect. For the people, see Taishanese people.
Taishanese
台山话
Native to
China, overseas communities particularly in United States and Canada
Region
Sze Yup, the Pearl River Delta; historic Chinese communities in California and New York City, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
Sinitic
Chinese
Yue
Siyi
Taishanese
Language codes
ISO 639-3
–
ISO 639-6
tisa
Glottolog
tois1237
Linguasphere
79-AAA-mbc
Taishanese
Simplified Chinese
台山话
Traditional Chinese
臺山話
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Táishān huà
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Tòihsāan wá
Jyutping
toi4 saan1 waa2
other Yue
Taishanese
hoi˧ san˨ va˧˨˥
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Taishanese (Chinese: 台山话; pinyin: Táishān huà; Jyutping: toi4 saan1 waa2), alternatively romanized in Cantonese as Toishanese or Toisanese, in local dialect as Hoisanese or Hoisan-wa, is a Yue Chinese dialect native to Taishan, Guangdong. Although related, Taishanese has little mutual intelligibility with Cantonese. Taishanese is also spoken throughout Sze Yup (or Siyi in the pinyin romanization of Standard Mandarin Chinese), located on the western fringe of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong China. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, most of the Chinese emigration to North America originated from Sze Yup (which includes Taishan).[1] Thus, up to the mid-20th century, Taishanese was the dominant variety of the Chinese language spoken in Chinatowns in Canada and the United States. It was formerly the lingua franca of the overseas Chinese residing in the United States.[2]
^Peter Kwong and Dusanka Miscevic (2005). Chinese America: the untold story of America's oldest new community. The New Press. ISBN 978-1-56584-962-4.
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