Satinese (Saatinwaa in Satinese) (Shatianhua in Putonghua) is a dialect of
Yue Chinese
Yue () is a group of similar Sinitic languages spoken in Southern China, particularly in Liangguang (the Guangdong and Guangxi provinces).
The name Cantonese is often used for the whole group, but linguists prefer to reserve that name for ...
.
It is spoken by roughly half of the population of
Chungsan (Zhongshan),
Guangdong
Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...
, in
Namtau,
Wongpo,
Fausa,
Manchung,
Gonghau,
Tungsing,
Tungfung,
Siulaam,
Wanglan,
Salong,
Panfu,
Sanwan
Sanwan Township is a rural township in northern Miaoli County, Taiwan. It lies between the Taiwan Strait on the west and mountains on the east.
Geography
* Area:
* Population: 6,864 (January 2017)
Administrative divisions
The township comp ...
and
Tanchau.
It differs from
Standard Cantonese
Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding are ...
. Some subdialects among the Satin dialect are similar to Suntak dialect. Satin Regions in Chungsan are populated with
Tanka people
The Tankas or boat people are a sinicised ethnic group in Southern China who have traditionally lived on junks in coastal parts of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan, Shanghai, Zhejiang and along the Yangtze river, as well as Hong Kong ...
and the language is one of the major branches of
Tanka dialect.
References
Yue Chinese
Zhongshan
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