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{{Short description|Hakka dialect of Fujian, China}}
{{Expand Chinese|汀州客語|date=February 2016}}

{{Infobox language
| name             = Tingzhou dialect
| nativename       = {{nobold|{{lang|zh|汀州片}}}}
| region           = western [[Fujian]]
| date             = no date
| familycolor      = Sino-Tibetan
| fam2             = [[Sinitic languages|Sinitic]]
| fam3             = [[Varieties of Chinese|Chinese]]
| fam4             = Hakka–[[Gan Chinese|Gan]]?
| fam5             = Hakka–[[She Chinese|She]]?
| fam6             = [[Hakka Chinese|Hakka]]
| isoexception     = dialect
| iso6             = tigz
| glotto           = ting1250
| glottorefname    = Tingzhou
| dia1             = [[Changting dialect|Changting]]
|script=[[Chinese characters]]<br>[[Pha̍k-fa-sṳ]]
}}

The '''Tingzhou dialect''' ({{zh|c=汀州片|p=Tīngzhōupiàn}}) is a group of [[Hakka Chinese|Hakka dialects]] spoken in [[Longyan]] and [[Sanming]] (historically [[Tingzhou fu|Tingzhou]]), southwestern [[Fujian]]. Tingzhou includes the Hakka dialects spoken in the counties originally under the jurisdiction of Tingzhou: [[Changting County|Changting]] (Tingzhou), [[Ninghua County|Ninghua]], [[Qingliu County|Qingliu]], [[Liancheng County|Liancheng]], [[Wuping County|Wuping]], [[Shanghang County|Shanghang]], [[Yongding District, Longyan|Yongding]] and [[Mingxi]]. The [[Changting dialect]] is generally regarded as the representative dialect of this branch of Hakka.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Kèjiāhuà tōngyòng cídiǎn |date=2004 |publisher=Zhongshan daxue chubanshe |editor-last=Luo |editor-first=Meizhen 罗美珍 |location=Guangzhou |language=zh |script-title=zh:客家话通用词典 |editor-last2=Lin |editor-first2=Lifang 林立芳 |editor-last3=Rao |editor-first3=Changrong 饶长溶}}</ref>

==References==
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==See also==
*[[Changting dialect]]

{{Sino-Tibetan languages}}
{{Chinese language}}

[[Category:Hakka Chinese]]