The Danzhou dialect (simplified Chinese: 儋州话; traditional Chinese: 儋州話; pinyin: Dānzhōuhuà), locally known as Xianghua (simplified Chinese: 乡话; traditional Chinese: 鄉話; pinyin: xiānghuà; lit. 'village speech'), is a Chinese variety of uncertain affiliation spoken in the area of Danzhou in northwestern Hainan, China.[2] It was classified as Yue in the Language Atlas of China,[3][4] but in more recent work is treated as an unclassified southern variety.[5]

Varieties

Regional varieties are Bei'an 北岸音, Shuinan 水南音, Zhoujia 昼家音, Shanshang 山上音, Haitou 海头音, and Wuhu 五湖音.^{[citation needed]}

Distribution

The Danzhou dialect is spoken in the following areas of Hainan (Hainan 1994:253).[6]

• most of Danzhou 儋州市 except for the southeastern part of Danzhou
• Changjiang Li Autonomous County 昌江县 (northern coast)
  • Nanluo 南罗 and Haiwei 海尾 area
  • Xiyuan 西缘, Shiluo Town 石碌镇, Changjiang city
• northern Baisha Li Autonomous County 白沙县 (in just over 10 villages near the border with Danzhou)
• peripheral villages of Dongfang 东方市, Ledong 乐东, Qiongzhong 琼中, and Sanya 三亚

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