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台山話

简台山话 · 繁台山話

Mandarin · pinyin Tái shān huà

Taishanese, a language of the Yue language group 粵語 Yuè yǔ spoken in Jiangmen 江門 Jiāng mén and in the Chinatowns of North America

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台: tái · platform; unit; term of address
山: shān · mountain, hill, peak
話: huà · speech, talk, language; dialect
话: huà · speech, talk, language; dialect

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2–1–4 · Tai2 shan1 hua4

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