Gangou language

Gangou
Gangou
甘沟话 / 甘溝語
Native to	Minhe County, Qinghai
Native speakers	(unclear; 12,000 residents of Gangou township cited 1990)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Mandarin Central Plains Gangou; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	gang1272

Gangou (

Amdo (Tibetan). It is representative of Chinese varieties spoken in rural Qinghai that have been influenced by neighboring minority languages.^[1]

Gangou Mandarin is spoken in

There are also phonological differences from

Cantonese gaai², and 鞋 xié 'shoe' is pronounced hai, like Cantonese haai⁴.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b Feng Lide and Kevin Stuart, "Interethnic cultural contact on the Inner Asian frontier: The Gangou people of Minhe County, Qinghai." Sino-Platonic Papers 33 (1992), pp 4–8.[1]
^ Pronounced as pinyin zi, ci, si.
^ Although all the examples before other vowels correspond to historical forms, not all examples before i do. For example, 鷄 jī 'chicken' is gai¹ in Cantonese, but zi in Gangou dialect. Thus it may be that Feng and Stuart should be taken at face value when they imply that historical *g *k *h and historical *z *c *s both become z c s before i and both become g k h elsewhere.