Jianyang dialect
Northern Min Chinese spoken of Fujian, China
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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 to | Southern China |
| Region | Jianyang, Fujian |
Early forms | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | jian1241 |
Phonology
Jianyang dialect has 18 initials, 34 rimes and 8 tones.
Initials
Rimes
| a | ia | ua | |
| ɔ | iɔ | ||
| o | uo | ||
| e | ie | ue | ye |
| ai | |||
| ɔi | ui | ||
| au | |||
| au | iu | ||
| i | y | ||
| aŋ | iaŋ | uaŋ | |
| ɔŋ | iɔŋ | uɔŋ | |
| eiŋ | ieiŋ | ueiŋ | yeiŋ |
| aiŋ | |||
| ɔiŋ | |||
| oŋ | iŋ | uŋ | |
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.
