fangyan

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fangyan

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Borrowed from Mandarin 方言 (fāngyán).

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uncountable Synonym of topolect (a regional variety of Chinese) During this time the language has diversified into a number of so-called fangyan which share the same written form but are radically different in phonology, to such an extent that the spoken fangyan are not mutually intelligible.
Similar: topolect

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@misc{fangyan_2026,
  title = {fangyan},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fangyan},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}