Junjiahua

Junjiahua
軍家話
Native toPeople's Republic of China
Taiwan
RegionTaiwan: Taoyuan
Guangdong: Huizhou, Lufeng
Hainan: Sanya, Changjiang, Danzhou, Dongfang, Lingao
Guangxi
Fujian
etc.[1]
Native speakers
(undated figure of ~150,000[citation needed])
Chinese characters
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
ISO 639-6jnha
GlottologNone

Junjiahua, Junhua,[2] Junsheng, or "military speech" in English, is any of a number of isolated dialects in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Fujian, and Taiwan. Some[who?] believe that they are a Mandarin dialect group that assimilated to local Chinese variants in southern China.[citation needed] Junhua began as a lingua franca in the army, being spoken between soldiers dispatched to various parts of China during the Ming dynasty. It was subsequently spread to areas around the camps where the army settled. It is now an endangered language. In Hainan, it is still spoken by about 100,000 people. These speakers mainly live in Sanya (in Yacheng 崖城 and other locations[3]), Changjiang Li Autonomous County, Danzhou, Dongfang, and Lingao.

Some also consider the Dapenghua spoken in Dapeng Peninsula of Shenzhen to be a form of Junjiahua.

  1. ^ "Tái Yuè liǎng de jūnhuà de diàochá yánjiū" 台粵兩地軍話的調查研究 [An Investigation of Military Vernaculars in Taiwan and Guangdong] (PDF) (in Chinese). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-12-14.
  2. ^ Qiu, Xueqiang 丘學強. 2005. Junhua yanjiu 軍話研究. Beijing: Chinese Social Sciences Academy Press 中國社會科學出版社.
  3. ^ Liu, Chuntao 劉春陶. 2021. Hainan Sanya Yacheng Junhua yuanliu yanjiu 海南三亞崖城軍話源流研究. Nankai University Press 南開大學出版社.