Category
page 2Languages of China
Promotion of Putonghua
campaigns to shift Chinese dialects to Standard Mandarin
Chinese Pidgin English
type of contact language
Language Atlas of China
book by Stephen Wurm
Kili
language
Puroik
language
Tuyuhun
extinct 5th-century language of northern China
Southern Mongolian
language
Tuoba
extinct language once spoken in China
Junjiahua
Junjiahua, Junhua,
Junsheng, or "military speech" in English, is any of a number of isolated dialects in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Fujian, and Taiwan. Some believe that they are a Mandarin dialect group that assimilated to local Chinese variants in southern China. 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
Mango dialect
Is an Eastern Min dialect spoken mainly in Taishun and Cangnan Counties in Wenzhou, as well as parts of Qingyuan County in Lishui, in southeastern Zhejiang province.
West Hmongic
Hmongic language branch of Asia
Fuqing dialect
It is spoken in the county-level city of Fuqing, situated within the prefecture-level city of Fuzhou.