Danzhou dialect

Danzhou
儋州話
Native toChina
RegionHainan (Danzhou)
Native speakers
700,000 (2010)
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
1mk-dan
GlottologNone
Linguasphere79-AAA-naa

The Danzhou dialect (simplified Chinese: 儋州话; traditional Chinese: 儋州話; pinyin: Dānzhōuhuà), locally known as Xianghua (simplified Chinese: 乡话; traditional Chinese: 鄉話; pinyin: xiānghuà; lit. 'village speech'), is a Chinese variety of uncertain affiliation spoken in the area of Danzhou in northwestern Hainan, China. It was classified as Yue in the Language Atlas of China, but in more recent work, it is treated as an unclassified southern variety.