Junjiahua

Junjiahua
軍話
Native to Mainland China
Republic of China (Taiwan)
Region

Taiwan: Taoyuan
Guangdong: Huizhou, Lufeng
Hainan: Sanya, Changjiang,

Danzhou, Dongfang, Lingao
Guangxi
Fujian
etc.[1]
Native speakers
 ~150,000
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
ISO 639-6 jnha

Junjiahua, Junhua or Junsheng refers to a collection of isolated dialects in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Fujian, and Taiwan region. Some believes that they are probably a Mandarin dialect that get assimilated with local Chinese variants in southern China area. Junhua began as a lingua franca in army being spoken between soldiers from all parts of China from the Ming dynasty. It have subsequently been spread to area around the location where those army camps settle. It is now an endangered language. In Hainan, it's still sporken by about 100,000 people. These speakers mainly live in Sanya, Changjiang Li Autonomous County, Danzhou, Dongfang and Lingao.

Some also consider the Dapenghua spoken in Dapeng Peninsula of Shenzhen as a form of Junjiahua.

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