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Shantou dialect
汕頭話/Suaⁿ-thâu-uē
Spoken in China
Region Mainly in Shantou, southwestern Guangdong province.
Total speakers
Language family Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-1 zh
ISO 639-2 chi (B)  zho (T)
ISO 639-3 nanMin Nan
Shantou map2005.jpg
     Shantou dialect

The Shantou dialect, formerly known as the Swatow dialect, is a dialect mostly spoken in Shantou in Guangdong, China. It is a sub-dialect of Min Nan Chinese, and sometimes a sub-dialect of Teochew Min. [1].

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Southern Min languages







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