Chinese, Huizhou

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A language of China

ISO 639-3
czh
Alternate Names
Hui, Huizhou
Population

4,600,000 (2000 census). Jixi dialect: 988,000; Xiuyi dialect: 861,000; Qide dialect: 798,000; Yanzhou dialect: 638,000; Jingzhan dialect: 134,000.

Location

South or southeast Anhui Province, Huizhou region, Jixi, She (Xi), Ningguo, Jingde, Tunxi, Xiuning, Yi, Qimen, and Dongzhi counties; north and west Zhejiang Province, Chun’an county, Jiande municipality; northeast Jiangxi Province, Wuyuan, Dexing, and Fuliang counties.

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Language Status

6a (Vigorous).

Classification
Sino-Tibetan, Chinese
Dialects

Jingzhan, Jixi, Qide, Tunxi, Xiuyi, Yanzhou. Formerly considered part of Jianghuai dialect of Mandarin Chinese [cmn], but now considered by many a major dialect of Chinese. Dialects reportedly differ greatly from each other. Different from Huizhou dialect of Hakka Chinese [hak].

Language Development
Literacy rate in L2: 91% (2000 census, Han nationality). Highly literate in Chinese and they use that literature.
Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Chinese, Huizhou
Writing
Han script, Simplified variant. Han script, Traditional variant.
Other Comments

Majority officially classified as Han nationality.