Leizhou Min is a branch of
Min Chinese. It is spoken in the
Leizhou city and its neighbouring areas on the Leizhou peninsula in the west of
Guangdong province. In the classification of
Yuan Jiahua, it was included in the
Southern Min group, though it has low intelligibility with other Southern Min varieties. In the classification of
Li Rong, used by the
Language Atlas of China, it was treated as a separate Min subgroup. It is sometimes combined with
Hainanese in a Qiong–Lei group.