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Taishanese, or Toishanese (; Taishanese: ), is a dialect of Yue Chinese. The dialect is closely related to Cantonese. Taishanese is spoken in the southern part of Guangdong Province in China, particularly in and around the city-level county of Taishan. In the mid to late 19th century, a significant number of Chinese emigrating to North America originated from this area, making Taishanese a 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. == Names == The earliest linguistic studies refer to the dialect of Llin-nen or Xinning (). 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 the Mandarin pronunciation.〔〔Cantonese speakers have been shown to understand only about 30% of what they hear in Taishanese 〕〔 Alternative names have also been used. The term Toishan is a convention used by the United States Postal Service, the Defense Language Institute and the United States Census. The terms ''Toishan'', ''Toisan'' and ''Toisaan'' are all based on Cantonese pronunciation, and are also frequently found in linguistic and non-linguistic literature. Hoisan is a term based on the local pronunciation, although it is generally not used in published literature. These terms have also been anglicized with the suffix ''-ese'': Taishanese, Toishanese, and Toisanese. Of the previous three terms, ''Taishanese'' is most commonly used in academic literature, to about the same extent as the term ''Taishan dialect''. The term Hoisanese is rarely used in print literature, although it appears on the internet.〔(Taishan (Hoisanese Sanctuary) ) from asianworld.pftq.com〕 Another term used is Siyi (also ''Seiyap'', ''Szeyap'' or ''Szeyup'', ), which refers to a previous administrative division which comprised the four counties of Taishan, Kaiping, Enping and Xinhui. In 1983, a fifth county (Heshan) was added to the Jiangmen prefecture, and so the term Siyi has become an anachronism. The term ''Wuyi'' (), literally "five counties", refers to the modern administrative region, but this term is not used to refer to Taishanese. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Taishanese」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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