Changting dialect

{{Short description|Dialect of Tingzhou Hakka}}

{{refimprove|date=October 2015}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Changting dialect

|nativename={{lang|zh|長汀話}}

|states=China

|region=Changting County, Fujian

|speakers=173,000

|date=1993

|ref={{citation needed|date=June 2015}}

|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|fam2=Sinitic

|fam3=Hakka

|fam4=Tingzhou

|isoexception=dialect

|glotto=chan1325

|glottorefname=Changting

|notice=IPA|script=Chinese characters
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The Changting dialect ({{zh|t=長汀話|s=长汀话}}) is a dialect of Tingzhou Hakka mainly spoken in Changting County of northwest Fujian, China. It is generally regarded as the representative dialect of the Hakka spoken in western Fujian province.{{Cite book |title=Kèjiāhuà tōngyòng cídiǎn |date=2004 |publisher=Zhongshan daxue chubanshe |editor-last=Luo |editor-first=Meizhen 罗美珍 |location=Guangzhou |language=zh |script-title=zh:客家话通用词典 |editor-last2=Lin |editor-first2=Lifang 林立芳 |editor-last3=Rao |editor-first3=Changrong 饶长溶}}