Wencheng dialect

Wencheng dialect (文成話) is a dialect of Wu Chinese. It is an Oujiang dialect, but its tone system is different from other Oujiang dialects such as Wenzhounese.

Not to be confused with Wenchang dialect.
Wencheng dialect
文成話
Native toPeople's Republic of China
RegionWenzhou prefecture, Zhejiang province
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
ISO 639-6wceg
GlottologNone

Phonology

The most important difference between eastern Oujiang dialects such as Wencheng and Wenzhou proper are tonal differences and the retention of /f/ before /o/:

八风到晓得
Wenzhou puuhoŋtəɕadei
Wencheng bɔfoŋtɶɕoli

Wencheng shares the long vowels of Wenzhonese entering tone (spelled puu above) as well as the abrupt glottal stops of the sheng tones. The shang and ru tones are largely similar to Wenzhonese, but there are no falling tones—yang ping and yin qu are level—and yang qu is dipping rather than simply low.

Tone chart of Wencheng dialect[1]
Tone numberTone nameTone contour
1 yin ping (陰平)˧ 3
2 yang ping (陽平)ʱ˨ 2
3 yin shang (陰上)˧˦ʔ 34
4 yang shang (陽上)ʱ˨˧ʔ 23
5 yin qu (陰去)˨ 2
6 yang qu (陽去)ʱ˧˨˧ 323
7 yin ru (陰入)˨˧ː 23
8 yang ru (陽入)ʱ˨˩˧ː 213

Although yin qu has been said to have merged with yang ping (these are also close in Wenzhou, both being falling tones), the consonant voicing remains distinct. A second, slightly different transcription of Wencheng tone is reported, presumably largely due to speaker differences.

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References
  1. Phil Rose, 2008. "Oujiang Wu tones are acoustic reconstruction", in Morphology and language history: in honour of Harold Koch, p 245


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