Dalian dialect

Dalian dialect
大连话
Pronunciation/tɑ52 lien24 huɑ52/
RegionLiaodong Peninsula
Language codes
ISO 639-1zh
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone

The Dalian dialect (simplified Chinese: 大连话; traditional Chinese: 大連話; pinyin: Dàliánhuà, Romaji: Dairen-ben) is a dialect of Mandarin Chinese spoken on the Liaodong Peninsula, China including the city of Dalian and parts of Dandong and Yingkou. The Dalian dialect shares many similarities with the Yantai dialect and Weihai dialect spoken on Shandong Peninsula (Jiaodong Peninsula), to the south of the Bohai Strait; hence each of them is a subset of Jiao Liao Mandarin. The Dalian dialect is notable among Chinese dialects for loanwords from Japanese and Russian, reflecting its history of foreign occupation.[1]

Notable words in the Dalian dialect include ("foolish") and ("to cheat or deceive").

  1. ^ 大連方言について (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2012-05-07. Retrieved 2012-09-21.