Sze Yup

Sze Yup

Sze Yup, Sze Yap, Seiyap (Chinese characters: _zh. ; Cantonese Yale: "Sei3 yap1") or Si Yi (in Mandarin) are the four counties of Xinhui, Taishan, Kaiping and Enping in the Pearl River Delta, in southern Guangdong Province, China. Today these are four of the five county-level cities of the Jiangmen prefecture administered from the city of Jiangmen (the fifth county being Heshan).

The area gave rise to the Sze Yup dialects (四邑話) of Cantonese. Although Sze Yup and Standard Cantonese are both dialects of Cantonese, they are mutually unintelligible. [Harvard reference
last = Szeto
first = Cecilia
year = 2000
title = Testing intelligibility among Sinitic dialects
journal = Proceedings of ALS2K, the 2000 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society
url = http://au.geocities.com/austlingsoc/proceedings/als2000/szeto.pdf
accessdate = 2007-06-16] Therefore Sze Yup emigrants have kept their identity, even among other Cantonese emigrants.Fact|date=August 2007

In the 19th century, many people from Sze Yup emigrated to Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Australasia, North America and South America. The Punti-Hakka Clan Wars also erupted in these counties during this time. [ [http://www.apex.net.au/~jgk/taishan/phcwar.html Punti-Hakka Clan Wars and Taishan County] ]

External links

* [http://www.chia.chinesemuseum.com.au/biogs/CH00027b.htm] See Yup Society temple in South Melbourne, Victoria

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