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Sze Yap|siː jæp|
Also Sze-Yap, Szeyap.
[a. Chinese.]
The name of an area made up of four countries in the south of Guangdong Province in China (see quot. 1973) used attrib. and absol. to designate the Chinese dialect spoken there.
[1948R. A. D. Forrest Chinese Lang. x. 200 Cantonese, with reference also to the dialect of Sze-Yap, to the west of the Canton River delta, generally regarded as a minor variety of Cantonese.] 1964Asia Mag. 12 July 22/3 The Chinese [in Hong Kong]..speak no less than seven tongues—Cantonese, Hoklo, Sze Yap, [etc.]. 1971K. Hopkins Hong Kong 235 Cantonese is very much the predominant language but there are minorities who speak..Sze Yap. 1973R. A. D. Forrest Chinese Lang. (ed. 3) xi. 235 Usually reckoned a sub-dialect of Cantonese, though, in the opinion of the present writer, showing enough distinctive features to warrant its separation, is the dialect of SzeYap, the ‘Four Towns’, spoken on the west of the Canton River delta... Like most varieties of Cantonese, Sze Yap has lost all distinction of s- and ʃ-. Ibid. 328 The Sze Yap dialect has regularly h- for t‘. 1982English World-Wide III. i. 48 Other varieties of Chinese spoken include Szeyap, Chiuchow, Shanghainese, Hokkien and Hakka. |