Tingzhou dialect

{{Short description|Hakka dialect of Fujian, China}}

{{Expand Chinese|汀州客語|date=February 2016}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Tingzhou dialect

| nativename = {{nobold|{{lang|zh|汀州片}}}}

| region = western Fujian

| date = no date

| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan

| fam2 = Sinitic

| fam3 = Chinese

| fam4 = Hakka–Gan?

| fam5 = Hakka–She?

| fam6 = Hakka

| isoexception = dialect

| iso6 = tigz

| glotto = ting1250

| glottorefname = Tingzhou

| dia1 = Changting

|script=Chinese characters
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ

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The Tingzhou dialect ({{zh|c=汀州片|p=Tīngzhōupiàn}}) is a group of Hakka dialects spoken in Longyan and Sanming (historically Tingzhou), southwestern Fujian. Tingzhou includes the Hakka dialects spoken in the counties originally under the jurisdiction of Tingzhou: Changting (Tingzhou), Ninghua, Qingliu, Liancheng, Wuping, Shanghang, Yongding and Mingxi. The Changting dialect is generally regarded as the representative dialect of this branch of Hakka.{{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}}