Longdu dialect

Longdu dialect
Longdu dialect
隆都話
Native to	China
Region	Dachong and Shaxi, Guangdong, Hawaii, US-Canada Chinatowns
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Min Coastal Min Eastern Min (Zhongshan Min) Longdu dialect; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Proto-Sino-Tibetan Old Chinese Proto-Min ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	long1252
	Location of Zhongshan 中山 within Guangdong 广东 Province, China

The Longdu dialect is a variety of the Eastern Min branch of Chinese originating from the towns of Dachong and Shaxi in Zhongshan in the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong. The two regions Shaxi and Dachong are together informally known as the Longdu region to locals and those overseas. There are more than 40 villages in the region and they are held together by their shared dialect, which may be classified as endangered due to its deterioration in status and rapidly decreasing popularity even within the Longdu region. Despite its proximity, the Longdu dialect is not very closely related to the surrounding dialects in the region, which belong to the Yue group. As such, Longdu forms a "dialect island" of Min speakers. It is one of three enclaves of Min in Zhongshan, the others being Sanxiang and Nanlang.