Chaoshan dialect

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The Chaoshan dialect, also known as Teochew, is a Southern Min Chinese variety spoken primarily in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong and by large overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia and beyond.

All labels observed (10)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (62)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese dialect ⓘ
Sinitic language variety ⓘ
Southern Min Chinese variety ⓘ
alternativeName Chaoshan Min ⓘ
Chaozhou dialect ⓘ
linked to: Chaoshan dialect

Teo-Swa ⓘ
Teochew ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Hokkien ⓘ
Quanzhou dialect ⓘ
Zhangzhou dialect ⓘ
hasGlottocode teoc1235 ⓘ
hasISOCode nan (macrolanguage code for Min Nan Chinese) ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature complex tone sandhi ⓘ
contrastive nasal finals ⓘ
distinction between checked and unchecked tones ⓘ
preservation of final stops -p -t -k ⓘ
rich tone system ⓘ
voiceless sonorants in some varieties ⓘ
hasRomanization POJ-based Teochew romanization ⓘ
Peng'im ⓘ
historicalOrigin descended from ancient Min Chinese ⓘ
influencedBy Cantonese ⓘ
Hakka Chinese ⓘ
linked to: Hakka language

Mandarin Chinese ⓘ
Middle Chinese ⓘ
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
mutuallyIntelligibleWith Swatow dialect ⓘ
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Cantonese ⓘ
Mandarin Chinese ⓘ
regionType coastal dialect of Southern Min ⓘ
spokenIn Cambodia ⓘ
Chaoshan region ⓘ
Chaozhou ⓘ
Guangdong Province ⓘ
Hong Kong ⓘ
linked to: Hong Kong, China

Indonesia ⓘ
Jieyang ⓘ
Macau ⓘ
Malaysia ⓘ
Myanmar ⓘ
People's Republic of China ⓘ
linked to: China

Philippines ⓘ
Shantou ⓘ
Singapore ⓘ
Taiwan ⓘ
Thailand ⓘ
Vietnam ⓘ
linked to: Viet Nam

eastern Guangdong Province ⓘ
overseas Chinese communities ⓘ
subgroupOf Min Chinese ⓘ
Southern Min ⓘ
usedBy Chaoshan people ⓘ
usedFor business communication in Chaoshan region ⓘ
clan and ancestral rituals ⓘ
daily communication ⓘ
religious practices ⓘ
usedIn folk songs ⓘ
radio broadcasting ⓘ
television dramas ⓘ
traditional opera ⓘ
writingSystem Chinese characters ⓘ
Latin alphabet romanization ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (19)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Teochew → hasAlternativeName → Chaoshan dialect ⓘ
Chiuchow → alternativeName → Chaozhou dialect ⓘ
linked to: Chaoshan dialect
Chiuchow → closelyRelatedTo → Shantou dialect ⓘ
linked to: Chaoshan dialect
Chiuchow → closelyRelatedTo → Swatow dialect ⓘ
linked to: Chaoshan dialect
nan → appliesTo → Chaoshan Chinese ⓘ
linked to: Chaoshan dialect
Chaoshan culture → language → Chaoshan dialect ⓘ
Quanzhou dialect → hasAlternativeName → Choan-chiu dialect ⓘ
linked to: Chaoshan dialect
Zhangzhou dialect → hasAlternativeName → Changchew dialect ⓘ
linked to: Chaoshan dialect
Chaoshan dialect → alternativeName → Chaozhou dialect ⓘ
linked to: Chaoshan dialect
Chaoshan Min → hasVariety → Swatow dialect ⓘ
linked to: Chaoshan dialect
Chaoshan Min → hasVariety → Chaozhou dialect ⓘ
linked to: Chaoshan dialect
Chaoshan Min → hasVariety → Jieyang dialect ⓘ
linked to: Chaoshan dialect
Hokkien people → traditionalLanguage → Southern Min language ⓘ
linked to: Chaoshan dialect
Minnan → closelyRelatedTo → Chaoshan dialects ⓘ
linked to: Chaoshan dialect
Chaoshan language → mutuallyIntelligibleWith → Shantou dialect ⓘ
linked to: Chaoshan dialect
Chaoshan language → hasDialect → Chaozhou dialect ⓘ
linked to: Chaoshan dialect
Chaoshan language → hasDialect → Shantou dialect ⓘ
linked to: Chaoshan dialect
Swatow people → hasLanguage → Chaoshan dialect ⓘ
Chiuchow people → languageIsMutuallyIntelligibleWith → Swatow dialect ⓘ
linked to: Chaoshan dialect