Mango dialect

Not to be confused with Mango language.
Taishun Manjiang
泰順蠻講, 蠻講, 蠻話
Native to Southern China
Region Taishun and Cangnan, Wenzhou, Zhejiang
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog None

Man or Mango (simplified Chinese: 蛮话; traditional Chinese: 蠻話; pinyin: Mánhuà; literally: "Man speech"), also known as Taishun Manjiang (simplified Chinese: 泰顺蛮讲; traditional Chinese: 泰順蠻講; pinyin: Tàishùn Mánjiǎng), is a Eastern Min dialect spoken in Taishun and Cangnan counties of Wenzhou prefecture in Southeast Zhejiang province.

As a dialect of Eastern Min, Manjiang is very distant from major Chinese varieties such as Mandarin and Cantonese, and displays very significant elements of a substratal indigenous language, perhaps belonging to the Austroasiatic or Tai–Kadai language families.

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