Teochew
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Teochew 潮州 話 / 潮州 话 |
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Spoken in |
PR China , Malaysia , ... | |
| speaker | 30 million | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
zh (Chinese languages) |
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| ISO 639 -2 | ( B ) chi (Chinese languages) | ( T ) zho (Chinese languages) |
| ISO 639-3 |
nan (Min Nan), zho (macro language, Chinese languages) |
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Teochew ( Chinese 潮州 話 / 潮州 话 , Pinyin Cháozhōuhuà - "Chaozhou language", IPA : [tiε5 tsiu1 uε7] ) is a Min-Nan language (officially a dialect of Chinese ) that is found in the eight eastern districts of the Province Guangdong is spoken and most likely with the southern Fujian spoken Hokkien and Taiwanese is related. It is spoken by Han Chinese and has about 30 million speakers worldwide. The name is derived from an old English-based transcription of the city name Chaozhou .
Teochew is a tonal language , the six intonations and a strong sandhi (tonal variation in coincidence of two syllables) has. It differs a lot from standard Chinese (Mandarin) and Cantonese , both in terms of sound and grammar , so that oral communication between the two idioms is not possible. Teochew is one of the most conservative idioms of the Han Chinese and has retained many linguistic structures such as pronunciation and sentence structure from ancient Central Chinese and is therefore particularly interesting for sinologists who deal with ancient ancient and central Chinese literature, as they are closer to is related to ancient Chinese as the modern standard standard Chinese language.
The language is more than a thousand years old and is spoken by many Chinese overseas . Almost a million Teochew Chinese are said to live in Malaysia alone . In Hong Kong it is the second most widely spoken language, but due to the many waves of emigration of Teochew Chinese in the 19th and 20th centuries, it is also spoken by the diaspora in the respective countries ( Taiwan , Singapore , Thailand , Indonesia / Java / Bali, Vietnam , Cambodia , Brunei , Australia , New Zealand , USA and others). Most Teochew speakers in China grow up bilingual, speaking standard Chinese in public life and only in the Teochew family circle. The younger generation in particular forgets the linguistic peculiarities due to the influence of standard Chinese media influences, especially regionally used characters are rarely taught.
Web links
- Teochew-English dictionary
- Anne E. Peng: Aspects of the Syntax of Indonesian Teochew. 2012, dissertation (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ FAQ ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from gaginang.com, accessed May 5, 2014.
