Putian dialect
Putian | |
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Pó-chéng-uā / 莆田話 | |
Native to | Southern China |
Region | Putian, Fujian |
Sino-Tibetan
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Early forms | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | puti1238 |
Linguasphere | 79-AAA-idb |
Putian dialect | |
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Hinghwa BUC | Pó-chéng-uā (IPA: [pʰɔu˩˩ lɛŋ˩˧ ua˩˩]) |
The Putian dialect (
Pu-Xian Min Chinese spoken in urban area of Putian[further explanation needed], which is a prefecture-level city in the southeast coast of Fujian
province.
Phonology
The Putian dialect has 15 initials, 40 rimes and 7 tones.
Initials
Bilabial | Alveolar | Lateral | Velar | Glottal | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | /m/ 麻 | / n / 拿
|
/ŋ/ 雅 | ||||
Plosive/ Affricate |
Unaspirated | /p/ 巴 | / t / 打
|
/ts/ 渣 | /k/ 家 | /ʔ/ 烏 | |
Aspirated | /pʰ/ 彭 | /tʰ/ 他 | /tsʰ/ 査 | /kʰ/ 卡 | |||
Fricative | /β/* | / ɬ / 沙
|
/ɣ/* | /h/ 下 | |||
Approximant | / l / 拉
|
Rimes
Open syllable | Nasal Coda /-ŋ/ | Glottal Coda /-ʔ/ | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
open mouth | a 鴉 | au 拗 | aŋ 江 | aʔ 壓 |
ɒ 奥 | ɒŋ 王 | ɒʔ 屋 | ||
o 科 | ɔu 烏 | ɔŋ 温 | ɔʔ 熨 | |
e 裔 | ai 愛 | ɛŋ 煙 | ɛʔ 黑 | |
ø 改 | œŋ 熊 | œʔ 郁 | ||
ŋ 伓 | ||||
even teeth | i 衣 | iu 油 | iŋ 引 | iʔ 益 |
ia 夜 | iau 要 | iaŋ 鹽 | iaʔ 葉 | |
closed mouth | u 夫 | ui 位 | uŋ 廣 | |
ua 画 | uai 歪 | uaŋ 碗 | uaʔ 活 | |
round mouth | y 余 | yŋ 恩 | yʔ 役 | |
yɒ 安 | yɒŋ 羊 | yɒʔ 藥 |
Tones
No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tones | 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 | ˥˧˧ (533) | ˩˧ (13) | ˦˥˧ (453) | ˦˨ (42) | ˩ (11) | ʔ˨˩ (21ʔ) | ʔ˦ (4ʔ) |
Example Hanzi | 詩巴 | 時爬 | 始把 | 試霸 | 寺罷 | 濕北 | 實拔 |
Assimilation
Coda of the Former Syllable |
Initial of the Latter Syllable |
Assimilation | Coda of the Former Syllable |
Initial of the Latter Syllable | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Group A | Open syllable | /p/, /pʰ/ | → | remain unchanged | /β/, /ɣ/ |
/ ɬ /
|
/ l /
| ||||
/k/, /kʰ/, /h/ | /ɣ/ | ||||
/ l/, /ŋ /, null initial
|
remain unchanged | ||||
Group B | /-ŋ/ (nasal coda) | /p/, /pʰ/ | /-m/ | /m/ | |
/ ɬ /
|
/-n/ | / n /, remain unchanged
| |||
/k/, /kʰ/, /h/, null initial | remain unchanged | /ŋ/ | |||
/ n/, /ŋ /
|
/-m/, /-n/, /-ŋ/ | remain unchanged | |||
Group C | /-ʔ/ (glottal Coda) | /p/, /pʰ/, /m/ | /-p̚/ | remain unchanged | |
/ n /
|
/-t̚/ | ||||
/k/, /kʰ/, /ŋ/, /h/ | /-k̚/ | ||||
null initial | /-ʔ/ |
Tone sandhi
Putian dialect has extremely extensive tone sandhi rules: in an utterance, only the last syllable pronounced is not affected by the rules.
The two-syllable tonal sandhi rules are shown in the table below (the rows give the first syllable's original citation tone, while the columns give the citation tone of the second syllable):
dark level 533 |
light level 13 |
rising 453 |
dark departing 42 |
light departing 11 |
dark entering ʔ21 |
light entering ʔ4 | |
dark level 533 |
11 | 13 | 11 | ||||
light level 13 |
11 | 55 | 42 | 11 | |||
rising 453 |
13 | 11 | 13 | 11 | |||
dark departing 42 |
55 | 42 | 55 | 42 | 55 | ||
light departing 11 |
11 | 55 | 42 | 55 | |||
dark entering ʔ21 |
ʔ4 | ||||||
light entering ʔ4 |
ʔ21 |
Notes
References
- JSTOR 2718766
- ISBN 978-0-7748-0192-8
- from the original on 2023-10-13. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- Compilation Commission of Chorography of Putian City 福建省莆田市地方志编纂委员会 (2001). Pu tian shi zhi 莆田市志 ["Chorography of Putian City"]. Vol. 43. Beijing: Fangzhi chubanshe 方志出版社 ["Chorography Press"]. ISBN 7-80122-669-0. Archived from the originalon 2017-02-10. Retrieved 2018-04-06.