Fu'an_dialect

Fu'an dialect

Fu'an dialect

Dialect of Eastern Min

The Fu'an dialect (福安話) is a dialect of Eastern Min, which is a branch of Min Chinese spoken mainly in the eastern part of Fujian Province, China.

Quick Facts Native to, Region ...

The Fu'an dialect covers two city and three counties: Ningde, Fu'an, Shouning, Zhouning and Zherong County.

Phonology

The Fu'an dialect has 18 initials, 50 rimes and 7 tones.

Initials

More information Labial, Dental ...

Rimes

More information Open syllable, Nasal coda ...

Tones

More information No., Tone name ...

Perseverative assimilation

More information The Coda of the Former Syllable, The initial assimilation of the Latter Syllable ...

Anticipatory assimilation

Tone sandhi

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
332		 light level
22		 rising
42		 dark departing
35		 light departing
23		 dark entering
5		 light entering
2
dark level
332		 55 55 44 44
light level
22		 332 35+42 55 44 44
rising
42		 23+332 35+42 55 44 44
dark departing
35		 55 55 44 44
light departing
23		 55 55 44 44
dark entering
5		 55 55 44 44
light entering
2		 35+5 55 44 44

Notes

  1. Min is believed to have split from Old Chinese, rather than Middle Chinese like other varieties of Chinese.[1][2][3]

References

  1. [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. [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. [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.
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