The Tuaguitiau dialect of Southern Min is a small language island situated in the Hakka speaking area, Hsin-wu district in Taoyuan, Taiwan. The inhabitants migrated from Chang-chou of Fuchian via Lu-feng of Kwang-tung 265 years ago. Enveloped by the Hakkaese and Chao-chou dialects for a long time, the dialect borrowed some linguistic elements from Hakkaese and Chao-chou dialect, but it still maintains many essential dialectal features of Chang-chou. This paper focuses on tracing its homeland and its history, and analyzing its linguistic stratum diachronically, and its development synchronically, according to the data of traditional dialect survey and socio-dialectological investigation.

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