Jianyang dialect

Jianyang (Kienyang) (Northern Min: Gṳ̿ing-iô̤ng-dī / 建陽事) is a dialect of Northern Min Chinese spoken in Jianyang in the north of Fujian province.

Jianyang
Gṳ̿ing-iô̤ng-dī / 建陽事
Native toSouthern China
RegionJianyang, Fujian
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologjian1241[1]

Phonology

Jianyang dialect has 18 initials, 34 rimes and 8 tones.

Initials
Stops Nasals Fricatives Approx.
ppʰmβ
ttʰnl
tstsʰs
kkʰŋx
ʔhɦ
  • 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
aiaua
ɔiɔ
ouo
eieueye
ai
ɔiui
au
auiu
iy
aŋiaŋuaŋ
ɔŋiɔŋuɔŋ
eiŋieiŋueiŋyeiŋ
aiŋ
ɔiŋ
oŋiŋuŋ

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.

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References
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Jianyang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  • 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"]. 31. Beijing: Qunzhong chubanshe 群众出版社 ["Masses Press"]. ISBN 9787501412297.


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