Haifeng dialect, Lufeng dialect or Hailufeng dialect is a dialect

Dialect

The term dialect is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors,...

 mostly spoken in Shanwei

Shanwei

Shanwei is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong province of Southern China, People's Republic of China. It borders Jieyang to the east, Meizhou and Heyuan to the north, Huizhou to the west, and looks out to the South China Sea to the south...

, Haifeng

Haifeng

Haifeng County is a county of Shanwei prefecture, southeastern Guangdong province, Southern china.The people there speak a Teochew dialect related to Hoklo and Hakka....

 and Lufeng

Lufeng

Lufeng City is a county-level city in the Shanwei municipal region, Guangdong, on the South China Sea coast, east of Hong Kong.Lufeng City is situated next to the county of Haifeng ; the area is sometimes conjointly referred to as Hailufeng.-Demography:It has a population of 1.7 million, the...

 in Guangdong

Guangdong

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, China

China

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. It is a sub-dialect of Min Nan Chinese, and sometimes a sub-dialect of Teochew dialect. Since some of the characters

Chinese character

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 pronunciations in Haifeng dialect are different from that in Teochew dialect (due to different rhymes in both dialects), Haifeng dialect is sometimes considered to be independent of Teochew dialect.