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Teochew
Chaozhou, Chaoshan, Teo-Swa
潮州話 / 潮汕話 / 潮語[1]
Native to
Chaoshan
Region
Eastern Guangdong (Chaoshan), Thailand, Southern Vietnam and Cambodia, Indonesia (Jambi and West Kalimantan), Singapore
Ethnicity
Teochew people
Native speakers
About 14 million in Chaoshan (2004)[2] more than 5 million overseas[citation needed]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
Sinitic
Chinese
Min
Coastal Min
Southern Min
Teochew
Early forms
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Old Chinese[i]
Proto-Min
Dialects
Chaozhou dialect (Teochew proper)
Swatow dialect (Shantou)
Jieyang dialect
Chaoyang dialect
Puning dialect
Huilai dialect
Bangkok Teochew
Writing system
Chinese characters Teochew Romanization Peng'im
Language codes
ISO 639-3
(tws is proposed[6])
Glottolog
chao1238
Linguasphere
79-AAA-ji
Teochew (Teo-Swa) within the Southern Min languages
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Teochew Min
Traditional Chinese
潮州話
Simplified Chinese
潮州话
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Cháozhōu huà
Wu
Romanization
zau tseu ghae ho
Hakka
Romanization
Tshèu-chû-fa
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
Ciu4 zau1 waa2
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
Tiô-chiu-ōe
Teochew Peng'im
Dio⁵ziu¹ uê⁷
Eastern Min
Fuzhou BUC
Dièu-ciŭ-uâ
Teochew[ii], also known as Teo-Swa (or Chaoshan)[iii], is a Southern Min language spoken by the Teochew people in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong and by their diaspora around the world. It is sometimes referred to as Chiuchow, its Cantonese rendering, due to English romanization by colonial officials and explorers. It is closely related to Hokkien, as it shares some cognates and phonology with Hokkien.
Teochew preserves many Old Chinese pronunciations and vocabulary that have been lost in some of the other modern varieties of Chinese. As such, Teochew is described as one of the most conservative Chinese languages.[7]
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