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Jiangle dialect

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Jiangle
Native toSouthern China
RegionJiangle, Sanming, Fujian
Early forms
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologjian1242
Linguasphere79-AAA-lac

The Jiangle dialect is a dialect of Shao-Jiang Min Chinese spoken in Jiangle, Sanming in northwestern Fujian province, China. It combines elements from Northern Min and Hakka Chinese.

Phonology

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The Jiangle dialect has 19 initials, 36 rimes and 7 tones.

Initials

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p, , m, f, v, t, , l, ts, tsʰ, s, , tʃʰ, ʃ, k, , ŋ, x, ʔ

Rimes

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ɿ, i, u, y, a, ia, ua, o, yo, e, ie, ue, ø, , æ, , eu, iu, ui, au, iau, , iaŋ, uaŋ, ɔŋ, iɔŋ, ɤŋ, iɤŋ, ɛ̃, iɛ̃, uɛ̃, yø̃, ĩ, , , ŋ̍

Tones

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No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Tone name dark level
陰平
light level
陽平
rising
上聲
dark departing
陰去
light departing
陽去
dark entering
陰入
light entering
陽入
Tone contour ˥ (55) ˨ (22) ˥˩ (51) ˧˨˦ (324) ˨˧˩ (231) ˨˩ (21) ˥ (5)

Notes

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  1. ^ Min is believed to have split from Old Chinese, rather than Middle Chinese like other varieties of Chinese.[1][2][3]

References

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  1. ^ Mei, Tsu-lin (1970), "Tones and prosody in Middle Chinese and the origin of the rising tone", Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 30: 86–110, doi:10.2307/2718766, JSTOR 2718766
  2. ^ Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1984), Middle Chinese: A study in Historical Phonology, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, p. 3, ISBN 978-0-7748-0192-8
  3. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2023-07-10). "Glottolog 4.8 - Min". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Archived from the original on 2023-10-13. Retrieved 2023-10-13.