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Jianyang dialect

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Jianyang
Gṳ̿ing-iô̤ng-dī / 建陽事
Native toSouthern China
RegionJianyang, Fujian
Early forms
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologjian1241
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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

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Jianyang dialect has 18 initials, 34 rimes and 8 tones.

Initials

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Stops Nasals Fricatives Approx.
p m β
t n l
ts tsʰ s
k ŋ x
ʔ h ɦ
  • Fricative and affricate sounds /ts, tsʰ, s, x/ are realized as more palatal as [, tɕʰ, ɕ, ç], when preceding front vowels.
  • /β/ can be realized as an approximant [ʋ] within different segments.

Rimes

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a ia ua
ɔ
o uo
e ie ue ye
ai
ɔi ui
au
au iu
i y
iaŋ uaŋ
ɔŋ iɔŋ uɔŋ
eiŋ ieiŋ ueiŋ yeiŋ
aiŋ
ɔiŋ

Tones

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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

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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.
  • 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.