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Mango dialect
Man
or , also known as
Manjiang
, is an
Eastern Min
dialect
spoken
in
Taishun
and
Cangnan
counties
of
Wenzhou
prefecture
in
Southeast
Zhejiang province
.
As a dialect of
Eastern
Min
, Manjiang is very
distant
from major
Chinese varieties
such as
Mandarin
and
Cantonese
, and
displays
very significant
elements
of a
substratal
indigenous language
,
perhaps
belonging
to the
Austroasiatic
or
Tai–Kadai language
families
.