Jianyang dialect
Appearance
Jianyang | |
---|---|
Gṳ̿ing-iô̤ng-dī / 建陽事 | |
Native to | Southern Jianyang, Fujian |
Early forms | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | jian1241 |
Jianyang (Kienyang) (
Jianyang in the north of Fujian
province.
Phonology
Jianyang dialect has 18 initials, 34 rimes and 8 tones.
Initials
Stops
|
Nasals | Fricatives
|
Approx.
| |
---|---|---|---|---|
p | pʰ | m | β | |
t |
tʰ | n |
l
| |
ts | tsʰ | s | ||
k | kʰ | ŋ | x | |
ʔ | h | ɦ |
- 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
References
- JSTOR 2718766
- ISBN 978-0-7748-0192-8
- 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.