Danzhou dialect

{{Short description|Unclassified Yue Chinese dialect}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Danzhou

|nativename={{lang|zh-CN|儋州話}}

|states=China

|region=Hainan (Danzhou)

|speakers= 700,000

|ref={{cite web |url=http://www.danzhou.gov.cn/dzgov/dzwh/sanwen/201012/t20101213_535007.html |script-title=zh:与古汉语相通的儋州话 |access-date=2015-07-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150711040951/http://www.danzhou.gov.cn/dzgov/dzwh/sanwen/201012/t20101213_535007.html |archive-date=2015-07-11 }}

|date= 2010

|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|fam2=Sinitic

|fam3=Chinese

|fam4=Yue?

|iso3=none

|isoexception=dialect

|linglist=1mk-dan

|glotto=none

|lingua=79-AAA-naa

}}

The Danzhou dialect ({{zh|t=儋州話|s=儋州话|p=Dānzhōuhuà}}), locally known as Xianghua ({{zh|s=乡话|t=鄉話|p=xiānghuà|l=village speech}}), is a Chinese variety of uncertain affiliation spoken in the area of Danzhou in northwestern Hainan, China.{{cite journal

| last = Ting | first = Pang-hsin

| title = The Tan-Chou dialect of Hainan

| journal = Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale | volume = 8 | number = 1 | year = 1980 | pages = 5–27

| doi = 10.3406/clao.1980.1079

}}

It was classified as Yue in the Language Atlas of China,{{cite journal

| last = Chen | first = Bo

| title = 海南语言的分区 |trans-title=Language distribution on Hainan

| journal = Humanities & Social Sciences Journal of Hainan University

| year = 1986 | volume = 2 | pages = 87–97 | issn = 1004-1710

}}{{cite book

| first1 = Stephen Adolphe | last1 = Wurm

| first2 = Rong | last2 = Li

| first3 = Theo | last3 = Baumann

| first4 = Mei W. | last4 = Lee

| title = Language Atlas of China

| publisher = Longman | year = 1987

| isbn = 978-962-359-085-3

| at = Chart B12

}}

but in more recent work, it is treated as an unclassified southern variety.{{cite book

| first = Maria | last = Kurpaska

| title = Chinese Language(s): A Look Through the Prism of "The Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects"

| publisher = Walter de Gruyter | year = 2010 | isbn = 978-3-11-021914-2

| page = 73

}}