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Jiangle
Native toSouthern China
Region Jiangle, Sanming, Fujian
Early forms
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog jian1242
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

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

Initials

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

Rimes

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

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

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

References

  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.