Xiang Language Services in the UK

About Our Xiang Services

Xiang, sometimes called Hunanese, is a group of Sinitic Chinese varieties spoken mainly in Hunan province in south-central China, with an estimated 36 million or more speakers. Like other Chinese varieties it is tonal and written with Chinese characters, but it is not mutually intelligible with Mandarin. Linguists conventionally divide it into New Xiang, typified by the speech of the provincial capital Changsha and heavily influenced by south-western Mandarin, and Old Xiang, typified by Shuangfeng, which preserves older features such as voiced initial consonants lost in most modern Chinese varieties. Xiang has no separate standard written form; speakers read and write Standard Chinese. Mao Zedong came from Hunan, and his Xiang-accented Mandarin is often mentioned in accounts of the region's speech.

Prism Linguistics provides Xiang translation, interpreting and transcription across the UK in 300+ languages. Whether you need a certified document for the Home Office, a court interpreter, an NHS appointment or a business meeting, our vetted native-speaker linguists are ready to help.