Nanlang dialect

{{Short description|Eastern Min dialect of Guangdong, China}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Nanlang

| nativename = Namlong

| altname = 南蓢話

| states = China

| region = Mainly in Nanlang, southern Guangdong province.

| speakers = ?

| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan

| fam2 = Sinitic

| fam3 = Chinese

| fam4 = Min

| fam5 = Coastal Min

| fam6 = Eastern Min

| fam7 = (Zhongshan Min)

| ancestor = Proto-Sino-Tibetan

| ancestor2 = Old Chinese{{efn|name=minClassification|Min is believed to have split from Old Chinese, rather than Middle Chinese like other varieties of Chinese.{{citation |last=Mei |first=Tsu-lin |author1-link=Mei Tsu-lin |title=Tones and prosody in Middle Chinese and the origin of the rising tone |journal=Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies |volume=30 |year=1970 |pages=86–110 |doi=10.2307/2718766 |jstor=2718766}}{{citation |last=Pulleyblank |first=Edwin G. |author-link=Edwin G. Pulleyblank |title=Middle Chinese: A study in Historical Phonology |year=1984 |page=3 |location=Vancouver |publisher=University of British Columbia Press |isbn=978-0-7748-0192-8}}{{Cite journal |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/minn1248 |title=Glottolog 4.8 - Min |date=2023-07-10 |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=Glottolog |last1=Hammarström |first1=Harald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013171747/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/minn1248 |archive-date=2023-10-13 |url-status=live |publisher=Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |author-link=Harald Hammarström |last2=Forkel |first2=Robert |publication-place=Leipzig |doi=10.5281/zenodo.7398962 |last3=Haspelmath |first3=Martin |author-link3=Martin Haspelmath |last4=Bank |first4=Sebastian |doi-access=free}}}}

| ancestor3 = Proto-Min

| isoexception = dialect

| glotto = nanl1234

| glottorefname = Nanlang

| map = Zhongshan map2005.jpg

| mapcaption = {{color box|#c8ab37}} Nanlang dialect, at the eastern edge of Zhongshan City

| iso3 = none

}}

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.{{Cite web |last=Campbell |first=James |title=Zhongshan Nanlang Dialect Phonology |url=http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/phon/nanlang.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100820082647/http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/phon/nanlang.php |archive-date=2010-08-20 |access-date=2009-03-26 |website=Glossika |language=en}} 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.{{cite journal

| title = The Namlong Dialect, a Northern Min Outlier in Zhongshan Xian and the Influence of Cantonese on its Lexicon and Phonology

| given = Nicholas C. | surname = Bodman | author-link = Nicholas Bodman

| journal = Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies | volume = 14 | issue = 1 | year = 1982 | pages = 1–19

}} pp. 1–2.