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Shaowu dialect

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Shaowu
Native toSouthern China
RegionShaowu, Nanping, Fujian
Early forms
Romanized Shaowu
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologshao1235
Linguasphere79-AAA-lab

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

Phonology

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The Shaowu dialect has 20 initials, 46 rimes and 6 tones.

Initials

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p, , m, f, v, t, , n, l, t͡s, t͡sʰ, s, t͡ɕ, t͡ɕʰ, ɕ, k, , ŋ, x, ʔ

Rimes

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ɿ, i, u, y, a, i, ua, o, io, uo, ie, ye, ə, , ɯ, ai, uai, oi, ei, uei, əi, au, iau, ou, iou, əu, an, in, uan, yn, on, uon, en, ien, yen, ən, uən, , iaŋ, uaŋ, , ioŋ, uoŋ, ŋ̍, iuŋ,

Tones

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No. 1 2 3 4 5 6
Tone name dark level
陰平
light level
陽平
rising
上聲
dark departing
陰去
light departing
陽去
entering
入聲
Tone contour ˨˩ (21) ˨ (22) ˥ (55) ˨˩˧ (213) ˧˥ (35) ˥˧ (53)

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.