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Northern Min Chinese spoken of Fujian, China
Jianyang (Kienyang ) (
Northern Min : Gṳ̿ing-iô̤ng-dī / 建陽事 ) is a dialect of
Northern Min
Chinese spoken in
Jianyang in the north of
Fujian province.
Phonology
Jianyang dialect has 18 initials, 34 rimes and 8 tones.
Initials
Fricative and affricate sounds /
ts ,
tsʰ ,
s ,
x / are realized as more palatal as [
tɕ ,
tɕʰ ,
ɕ ,
ç ], when preceding front vowels.
/
β / can be realized as an approximant [
ʋ ] within different segments.
Rimes
a
ia
ua
ɔ
iɔ
o
uo
e
ie
ue
ye
ai
ɔi
ui
au
au
iu
i
y
aŋ
iaŋ
uaŋ
ɔŋ
iɔŋ
uɔŋ
eiŋ
ieiŋ
ueiŋ
yeiŋ
aiŋ
ɔiŋ
oŋ
iŋ
uŋ
Tones
No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Tone name
dark level 陰平
light level A 陽平甲
light level B 陽平乙
rising 上聲
dark departing 陰去
light departing 陽去
dark entering 陰入
light entering 陽入
Tone contour
˥˧ (53)
˧˧˦ (334)
˦˩ (41)
˨˩ (21)
˧˧˨ (332)
˦˧ (43)
˨˩˦ (214)
˦ (4)
The entering tones in Jianyang dialect don't have any entering tone coda (入聲韻尾 ) such as /-ʔ/ , /-p̚/ , /-t̚/ and /-k̚/ . It's quite different from many other Chinese dialects.
Notes
^ Min is believed to have split from Old Chinese, rather than Middle Chinese like other varieties of Chinese.
[1]
[2]
[3]
References
^
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
^
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
^
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 .
Chen, Matthew (2000). Tone Sandhi: Patterns across Chinese Dialects . CUP.
Norman, Jerry (1969). "The Kienyang Dialect of Fukien". Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
Compilation Commission of Chorography of Jianyang County 建阳县地方志编纂委员会 (1994). Jian yang xian zhi 建阳县志 ["Chorography of Jianyang County"] . Vol. 31. Beijing: Qunzhong chubanshe 群众出版社 ["Masses Press"].
ISBN
9787501412297 .
Research
Proto-languages Rime dictionaries