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{{Short description|Eastern Min dialect of China}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Manjiang
|nativename={{lang|cdo|蠻講, 蠻話}}
|states=[[China]]
|region=southeastern [[Zhejiang]]
|speakers={{sigfig|500000|2}}
|date=2012
|ref={{sfn|Cao|2012|p=205}}
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan
|fam2=[[Sinitic languages|Sinitic]]
|fam3=[[Chinese language|Chinese]]
|fam4=[[Min Chinese|Min]]
|fam5=[[Min Chinese#Coastal Min|Coastal Min]]
|fam6=[[Eastern Min]]
|ancestor=[[Proto-Sino-Tibetan language|Proto-Sino-Tibetan]]
|ancestor2=[[Old Chinese]]{{efn|name=minClassification|Min is believed to have split from Old Chinese, rather than Middle Chinese like other varieties of Chinese.<ref>{{citation |last=Mei |first=Tsu-lin |author1-link=Mei Tsu-lin |title=Tones and prosody in Middle Chinese and the origin of the rising tone |journal=Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies |volume=30 |year=1970 |pages=86–110 |doi=10.2307/2718766 |jstor=2718766}}</ref><ref>{{citation |last=Pulleyblank |first=Edwin G. |author-link=Edwin G. Pulleyblank |title=Middle Chinese: A study in Historical Phonology |year=1984 |page=3 |location=Vancouver |publisher=University of British Columbia Press |isbn=978-0-7748-0192-8}}</ref><ref name="glottoMin">{{Cite journal |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/minn1248 |title=Glottolog 4.8 - Min |date=2023-07-10 |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=[[Glottolog]] |last1=Hammarström |first1=Harald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013171747/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/minn1248 |archive-date=2023-10-13 |url-status=live |publisher=[[Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology]] |author-link=Harald Hammarström |last2=Forkel |first2=Robert |publication-place=[[Leipzig]] |doi=10.5281/zenodo.7398962 |last3=Haspelmath |first3=Martin |author-link3=Martin Haspelmath |last4=Bank |first4=Sebastian |doi-access=free}}</ref>}}
|ancestor3=[[Proto-Min]]
|isoexception=dialect
|glotto=none
|lingua=79-AAA-ia
}}

'''Manjiang''' ({{zh|t=蠻講|s=蛮讲|p=Mánjiǎng}}), also known as '''Manhua''' ({{zh|t=蠻話|s=蛮话|p=Mánhuà|l=Man speech}}), is an [[Eastern Min]] dialect spoken mainly in [[Taishun]] and [[Cangnan]] Counties in [[Wenzhou]], as well as parts of [[Qingyuan County, Zhejiang|Qingyuan]] County in [[Lishui]], in southeastern [[Zhejiang]] province.{{sfn|Cao|2012|p=205}}

As a dialect of Eastern Min, Manjiang is very distant from major [[varieties of Chinese|Chinese varieties]] such as [[Standard Chinese|Mandarin]] and [[Cantonese]], and displays very significant elements of a substratal indigenous language, perhaps belonging to the [[Austroasiatic languages|Austroasiatic]] or [[Tai–Kadai]] language families.

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* {{Cite book |last=Cao |first=Zhiyun |title=Zhōngguó yǔyán dìtú jí |date=2012 |publisher=Commercial Press |isbn=978-7-100-07054-6 |edition=2nd |volume={{lang|zh|汉语方言卷}} |location=Beijing |pages=204–208 |language=Chinese |script-title=zh:中国语言地图集 |trans-title=Language Atlas of China |chapter=B2-10 Zhèjiāng Shěng de Hànyǔ fāngyán |script-chapter=zh:B2—10 浙江省的汉语方言 |trans-chapter=B2-10: Chinese Dialects in Zhejiang Province |author-link=Cao Zhiyun}}
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{{Min Chinese}}
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[[Category:Eastern Min]]
[[Category:Languages of China]]


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