Yuebei Tuhua Dialect
Shaozhou Tuhua (traditional: 韶州土話; simplified: 韶州土话 Sháozhōu Tǔhuà "Shaoguan tuhua"), or simply Tuhua, is an unclassified Chinese language spoken in the border region of the provinces Guangdong, Hunan and Guangxi. It is mutually unintelligible with Hunanese, Cantonese, or Mandarin.
Tuhua is the language of nüshu, the "women's script" of Jiangyong County in Yongzhou, Hunan.
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