Tuhua
Tuhua may refer to: * Shaozhou Tuhua, an unclassified Chinese language of Guangdong and Guangxi provinces * Xiangnan Tuhua, an unclassified Chinese language of southeastern Hunan * Mayor Island / Tuhua, a volcano in New Zealand * Tuhua railway station, a station on the Stratford–Okahukura Line The Stratford–Okahukura Line (SOL) is a secondary railway line in the North Island of New Zealand, between the Marton - New Plymouth Line (MNPL) and the North Island Main Trunk (NIMT) Railway, with 15 intermediate stations. It is long thro ...

Shaozhou Tuhua
Shaozhou Tuhua (traditional: 韶州土話; simplified: 韶州土话 ''Sháozhōu Tǔhuà'' "Shaoguan Tuhua"), or simply Tuhua, is an unclassified Chinese variety spoken in the northern region of Guangdong and Guangxi provinces, China. It is mutually unintelligible with Xiang, Cantonese, and Mandarin. Classification Some scholars consider it to be an extension of Ping Chinese (''Pinghua'') in Guangxi. Others consider it to have a foundation in Song dynasty-era Middle Gan, mixed with Hakka, Cantonese, and Southwestern Mandarin. Chen (2012) notes that the Shaoguan Tuhua of Shibei (石陂, in Zhenjiang District) shares many similarities with the Hakka of Qujiang District, due to intensive contact. Dialects Shaozhou Tuhua is also known as ''Yuebei Tuhua'' (粤北土话, "Northern Guangxi/Guangdong Tuhua"), and as ''Shīpóhuà'' (虱婆话, "Shipo dialect"), ''Shīnǎhuà'' (虱乸话, "Shina dialect"), or ''Shīpóshēng'' (虱婆声, "Shipo accent") in its own region. It is ...
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Xiangnan Tuhua
Xiangnan Tuhua (), or simply Tuhua, is an unclassified Chinese variety of southeastern Hunan. It is spoken throughout most of Yongzhou prefecture (apart from Qiyang County in the northeast) and in the western half of Chenzhou prefecture, in which Xiangnan dialects of Southwestern Mandarin are also spoken. There is likely significant non-Chinese influence such as Yao, and it may even have started out as Sinicized Yao. Xiangnan Tuhua is the language of nüshu, the "women's script" of Jiangyong County Jiangyong County () is a county of Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of Yongzhou prefecture-level City. Located on the south margin of the province, it is bordered on the west by Guangxi. The county is bordered to the northea ... in Yongzhou.Chiang (1995), p. 122. References External links * Miyake, Marc. 2014. ''A dip into white waters''. (Part1-4
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Mayor Island / Tuhua
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Tuhua Railway Station
Tuhua may refer to: * Shaozhou Tuhua, an unclassified Chinese language of Guangdong and Guangxi provinces * Xiangnan Tuhua, an unclassified Chinese language of southeastern Hunan * Mayor Island / Tuhua, a volcano in New Zealand * Tuhua railway station, a station on the Stratford–Okahukura Line The Stratford–Okahukura Line (SOL) is a secondary railway line in the North Island of New Zealand, between the Marton - New Plymouth Line (MNPL) and the North Island Main Trunk (NIMT) Railway, with 15 intermediate stations. It is long thro ...