Dalian dialect

Dalian dialect
大连话
Native to	China
Region	Liaodong Peninsula
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Chinese Mandarin Chinese Jiao-Liao Mandarin Dalian dialect
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

Dalian dialect (Chinese: 大连话, Pinyin: dalian hua, Romaji: Dairen-ben) is a dialect of Mandarin Chinese spoken on the Liaodong Peninsula, including the city of Dalian and parts of Dandong and Yingkou. Dalian dialect shares many similarities with the Qingdao dialect spoken on Shandong Peninsula (Jiaodong Peninsula) across Bohai Strait; hence the name Jiao Liao Mandarin (胶辽官话). Dalian dialect is notable among Chinese dialects for loanwords from Japanese and Russian, reflecting its history of foreign occupation.

Notable words in the Dalian dialect include 飆 ("foolish") and 熊 ("to cheat or deceive").

In Dalianese,

There are 15 vowels (3 nasal vowels), 15 consonants (1 zero consonant "h"), no affricates ("gh", "kx", "dz", "ts", "bv", "pf") and no entering tone in Dalian dialect. From the first open vowels "a" to the last close vowels "m", there are 366 syllabaries (183 uppercase and 183 lowercase).