Nanlang dialect

The Nanlang dialect is a variant of the Eastern Min Chinese predominantly spoken in Nanlang a town within Zhongshan in the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong, China.^[4] Despite its close proximity, Nanlang is not very closely related to the surrounding dialects in the region, which belong to the Yue group. As such, Nanlang forms a "dialect island" of Min speakers. It is one of three enclaves of Min in Zhongshan, the others being Longdu and Sanxiang.^[5]

Nanlang
南蓢話
Namlong
Native to	China
Region	Mainly in Nanlang, southern Guangdong province.
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Min Coastal Min Eastern Min (Zhongshan Min) Nanlang
Early forms	Proto-Sino-Tibetan Old Chinese[a] Proto-Min
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	nanl1234
Nanlang dialect, at the eastern edge of Zhongshan City

Notes

1. Min is believed to have split from Old Chinese, rather than Middle Chinese like other varieties of Chinese.^[1][2][3]