Northern Min
Northern Min | |
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Min Bei | |
Mâing-bă̤-ngṳ̌/閩北語 | |
Native to | China |
Region | Nanping (northwest Fujian) |
Native speakers | 2.5 million (2004)[1] |
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Early forms | |
Dialects | |
Kienning Colloquial Romanized (Jian'ou dialect) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mnp |
Glottolog | minb1236 |
Linguasphere | 79-AAA-ha |
Northern Min | |
Counties of Nanping prefecture, Fujian |
Northern Min (
Classification and distribution
Early classifications of varieties of Chinese, such as those of Li Fang-Kuei in 1937 and Yuan Jiahua in 1960, divided Min into Northern and Southern subgroups.[5][6] However, in a 1963 report on a survey of Fujian, Pan Maoding and colleagues argued that the primary split was between inland and coastal groups.[6][7] In a reclassification that has been followed by most dialectologists since, they restricted the term Northern Min to inland dialects of Nanping prefecture, and classified the coastal dialects of Fuzhou and Ningde as Eastern Min.[8][9]
According to the
Although coastal Min varieties can be derived from a
Notes
References
- ISBN 978-7-10-007054-6.
- JSTOR 2718766
- ISBN 978-0-7748-0192-8
- from the original on 2023-10-13. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ Kurpaska (2010), p. 49.
- ^ a b Norman (1988), p. 233.
- ^ Branner (2000), pp. 98–100.
- ^ Handel (2003), p. 48.
- ^ Kurpaska (2010), p. 52.
- ^ Wurm et al. (1987), Map B12.
- ^ Kurpaska (2010), p. 69.
- ^ Norman (1973), pp. 224–224, 228–229.
- ^ Norman (1988), pp. 228–230.
- ^ Branner (2000), pp. 100–104.
- ^ Handel (2003), p. 56.
- ^ Norman (1973), pp. 228–231.
- Branner, David Prager (2000), Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology — the Classification of Miin and Hakka, Trends in Linguistics series, vol. 123, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, ]
- Handel, Zev (2003), "Northern Min tone values and the reconstruction of 'softened initials'" (PDF), Language and Linguistics, 4 (1): 47–84.
- Kurpaska, Maria (2010), Chinese Language(s): A Look Through the Prism of "The Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects", ISBN 978-3-11-021914-2.
- JSTOR 23749795.
- —— (1988), Chinese, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-29653-3.
- Wurm, Stephen Adolphe; Li, Rong; Baumann, Theo; Lee, Mei W. (1987), Language Atlas of China, Longman, ISBN 978-962-359-085-3.
Further reading
- ISBN 9789860157451 (Documents three Northern Min dialects in detail: Shibei 石陂 of Pucheng County; Zhenqian 镇前 of Zhenghe County; Dikou 迪口 of Jian'ou City)
- Fujian Normal University Research Institute 福建师范学院. n.d. Mindong, Bei fangyan diaocha ziliao huibian (part 1) 闽东、北方言调查资料汇编: 第1辑. Fujian Normal University Research Institute 福建师范学院, Dialectology group, Chinese language department 中文系语言教研组 方言调查小组.
- Huang Chin-wen 黄金文. 2001. 方言接觸與閩北方言演變 / Language contact and the phonological changes in North Min. Taipei: National Taiwan University.
- Ma Chongqi 馬重奇. 2014. 明清閩北方言韻書手抄本音系研究 / A phonological study of the manuscripts of Northern Fujian Dialect rhyme books in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Beijing: Commercial Press. ISBN 978-7-100-07351-6
- Pan Weishui 潘渭水. 2007. Minbei fangyan yanjiu 闽北方言研究. Fuzhou: Fujian Educational Press 福建教育出版社.
- A Chinese-English dictionary of the Kien-Ning dialect. Foochow: Methodist Episcopal Anglo-Chinese Book Concern. 1901. OCLC 27038682.