Teochew Min

Teochew
Chaozhou, Chaoshan, Teo-Swa
潮州話 / 潮汕話 / 潮語[1]
Native toChaoshan
RegionEastern Guangdong (Chaoshan), Thailand, Southern Vietnam and Cambodia, Indonesia (Jambi and West Kalimantan), Singapore
EthnicityTeochew people
Native speakers
About 14 million in Chaoshan (2004)[2]
more than 5 million overseas[citation needed]
Early forms
Dialects
Chinese characters
Teochew Romanization
Peng'im
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologchao1238
Linguasphere79-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 PinyinCháozhōu huà
Wu
Romanizationzau tseu ghae ho
Hakka
RomanizationTshèu-chû-fa
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingCiu4 zau1 waa2
Southern Min
Hokkien POJTiô-chiu-ōe / Tiô-chiu-ōa
Teochew Peng'imDiê⁵ ziu¹ uê⁷ / Dio⁵ ziu¹ uê⁷
Eastern Min
Fuzhou BUCDièu-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.[6]

  1. ^ "學潮語,埋下愛的種子". Sin Chew. January 9, 2021.
  2. ^ Language atlas of China (2nd edition), City University of Hong Kong, 2012, ISBN 978-7-10-007054-6.
  3. ^ Mei, Tsu-lin (1970), "Tones and prosody in Middle Chinese and the origin of the rising tone", Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 30: 86–110, doi:10.2307/2718766, JSTOR 2718766
  4. ^ Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1984), Middle Chinese: A study in Historical Phonology, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, p. 3, ISBN 978-0-7748-0192-8
  5. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (July 10, 2023). "Glottolog 4.8 - Min". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Archived from the original on October 13, 2023. Retrieved October 13, 2023.
  6. ^ Yap, Foong Ha; Grunow-Hårsta, Karen; Wrona, Janick, eds. (2011). Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives. John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. 11. ISBN 978-9027206770.


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