Hing Hua / Puxian originally minnan

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xng
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Hing Hua / Puxian originally minnan

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For those hing hua people here and wants to know the history of the dialect.

Hing Hua dialect was originally a quanzhou dialect. In the year 979 AD, Song dynasty, it splitted from Quanzhou county and developed separately. As it is a neighbour to Fuzhou, it absorbed several MinDong characteristics.

http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/莆仙话#.E6.AD.B7.E5.8F.B2

If we removed the MinDong influences, the differences between Hing Hua and Quanzhou is only as great as Teochiu and Quanzhou.
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