Taishanese (Chinese: 台山話; Taishanese: [hɔi˨san˧wa˧˨˥]; Hoisanese, Toisanese) is a dialect of Yue. It is mainly spoken in and around Taishan, a county-level city situated southwest of Guangzhou on the coast of Guangdong province. In the mid to late 19th century, a significant number of Chinese emigrating to North America originated from this area, making Taishanese the dominant variety of the Chinese language spoken in North American Chinatowns. I...
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Taishanese (Chinese: 台山話; Taishanese: [hɔi˨san˧wa˧˨˥]; Hoisanese, Toisanese) is a dialect of Yue. It is mainly spoken in and around Taishan, a county-level city situated southwest of Guangzhou on the coast of Guangdong province. In the mid to late 19th century, a significant number of Chinese emigrating to North America originated from this area, making Taishanese the dominant variety of the Chinese language spoken in North American Chinatowns. It was formerly the lingua franca of the overseas Chinese residing in the United States. It is not currently recognized as having official status in any country.
The earliest linguistic studies refer to the dialect of Llin-nen or Xinning (Chinese: 新寧). Xinning was renamed Taishan in 1914, and linguistic literature has since generally referred to the local dialect as the Taishan dialect, a term based on Standard Mandarin pronunciation. Alternative names have also been used. The term Toishan is a convention used by the United States Postal...
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