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{{Short description|Eastern Min dialect of Guangdong, China}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Nanlang
| nativename       = ''Namlong''
| altname          = 南蓢話
| states           = [[China]]
| region           = Mainly in [[Nanlang]], southern [[Guangdong]] province.
| speakers         = ?
| 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]]
| fam7             = ([[Zhongshan 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           = nanl1234
| glottorefname    = Nanlang
| map              = Zhongshan map2005.jpg
| mapcaption       = {{color box|#c8ab37}} Nanlang dialect, at the eastern edge of Zhongshan City
| iso3             = none
}}

The '''Nanlang dialect''' is a variant of the [[Eastern Min]] Chinese predominantly spoken in [[Nanlang]] a town within [[Zhongshan]] in the [[Pearl River Delta]] of [[Guangdong]], China.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Campbell |first=James |title=Zhongshan Nanlang Dialect Phonology |url=http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/phon/nanlang.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100820082647/http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/phon/nanlang.php |archive-date=2010-08-20 |access-date=2009-03-26 |website=Glossika |language=en}}</ref> Despite its close proximity, Nanlang is not very closely related to the surrounding dialects in the region, which belong to the [[Yue Chinese|Yue group]]. As such, Nanlang forms a "dialect island" of Min speakers. It is one of three enclaves of [[Zhongshan Min|Min in Zhongshan]], the others being [[Longdu dialect|Longdu]] and [[Sanxiang dialect|Sanxiang]].<ref>{{cite journal
  | title = The Namlong Dialect, a Northern Min Outlier in Zhongshan Xian and the Influence of Cantonese on its Lexicon and Phonology
  | given = Nicholas C. | surname = Bodman | author-link = Nicholas Bodman
  | journal = Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies | volume = 14 | issue = 1 | year = 1982 | pages = 1–19
}} pp. 1–2.</ref>

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