Jiangle dialect

Jiangle
Native toSouthern China
RegionJiangle, Sanming, Fujian
Early forms
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologjian1242
Linguasphere79-AAA-lac

The Jiangle dialect is a dialect of Shao-Jiang Min Chinese spoken in Jiangle, Sanming in northwestern Fujian province, China. It combines elements from Northern Min and Hakka Chinese.

Phonology

The Jiangle dialect has 19 initials, 36 rimes and 7 tones.

Initials

p, pʰ, m, f, v, t, tʰ, l, ts, tsʰ, s, tʃ, tʃʰ, ʃ, k, kʰ, ŋ, x, ʔ

Rimes

ɿ, i, u, y, a, ia, ua, o, yo, e, ie, ue, ø, yø, æ, uæ, eu, iu, ui, au, iau, aŋ, iaŋ, uaŋ, ɔŋ, iɔŋ, ɤŋ, iɤŋ, ɛ̃, iɛ̃, uɛ̃, yø̃, ĩ, uĩ, ỹ, ŋ̍

Tones

No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Tone name 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 ˥ (55) ˨ (22) ˥˩ (51) ˧˨˦ (324) ˨˧˩ (231) ˨˩ (21) ˥ (5)

Notes

  1. ↑ Min is believed to have split from Old Chinese, rather than Middle Chinese like other varieties of Chinese.

References

  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.