Shatian dialect

{{Short description|Yue Chinese dialect}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Satinese

|nativename={{lang|yue-Hant|沙田話}}

|states=Southern China

|region=

|speakers=?

|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|fam2=Sinitic

|fam3=Unclassified (Yue Chinese?)

|fam4=Tanka dialect

|isoexception=dialect

|iso6=stns

|glotto=none

}}

{{Chinese

|s=沙田话

|t=沙田話

|j=Saa1 tin4 waa6-2

|p=Shatianhuà

}}

Satinese (Saatinwaa in Satinese, Shatianhua in Guoyu) is a dialect of Yue Chinese.{{Cite journal |last=Sousa |first=Hilário de |date=2022-03-25 |title=On Pinghua and Yue: Some Historical and Linguistic Perspectives |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/cjai/19/2/article-p257_7.xml |journal=Crossroads |language=en |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=257–295 |doi=10.1163/26662523-bja10004 |issn=2190-8796|url-access=subscription }} It is spoken by roughly half of the population of Chungsan (Zhongshan), Guangdong, in Namtau, Wongpo, Fausa, Manchung, Gonghau, Tungsing, Tungfung, Siulaam, Wanglan, Salong, Panfu, Sanwan and Tanchau.

It differs from Standard Cantonese. Some subdialects among the Satin dialect are similar to Suntak dialect. Satin Regions in Chungsan are populated with Tanka people and the language is one of the major branches of Tanka dialect.