Da-Tong, sometimes called Daye (simplified Chinese: 大冶话; traditional Chinese: 大冶話) after its principal dialect, is one of the Gan Chinese languages. It is spoken in Daye, in the southeastern part of Hubei province near the Jiangxi border, as well as in Xianning, Jiangyu, Puxin, Chongyang, Tongcheng, Tongshan, and Yangxin in Hubei, as well as in Huarong and bordering areas of eastern Hunan.
| Da-Tong | |
|---|---|
| Daye | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Southeastern Hubei, eastern Hunan |
| Chinese characters | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| ISO 639-6 | dton |
| Glottolog | None |
 Map of Gan languages; Da-Tong-speaking region in orange. | |
Sounds
editThe Daye variety will be taken as representative.
Consonants
edit| Bilabial | Alveolar | Alveolo-palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless unaspirated | p | t | k | ||
| voiceless aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | |||
| Affricate | voiceless unaspirated | ts | tɕ | |||
| voiceless aspirated | tsʰ | tɕʰ | ||||
| Fricative | voiced | z | ʑ | |||
| voiceless | f | s | ɕ | x | ||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||
Tones
editCitation tones
edit| Tone number | Tone name | Tone contour |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | yin ping (陰平) | ˨ (2) |
| 2 | yang ping (陽平) | ˧˩˧ (313) |
| 3 | shang sheng (上聲) | ˦˧ (43) |
| 4 | qu sheng (去聲) | ˧˥ (35) |
| 5 | ru sheng (入聲) | ˩˧ (13) |
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