The Shaowu dialect is a dialect of Shao-Jiang Min Chinese spoken in Shaowu, Nanping in northwestern Fujian province of China. It combines elements from Northern Min and Gan Chinese.

Shaowu
Native toSouthern China
RegionShaowu, Nanping, Fujian
Early forms
Romanized Shaowu
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologshao1235
Linguasphere79-AAA-lab

Phonology

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The Shaowu dialect has 20 initials, 46 rimes and 6 tones.

Initials

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p, , m, f, v, t, , n, l, t͡s, t͡sʰ, s, t͡ɕ, t͡ɕʰ, ɕ, k, , ŋ, x, ʔ

Rimes

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ɿ, i, u, y, a, i, ua, o, io, uo, ie, ye, ə, , ɯ, ai, uai, oi, ei, uei, əi, au, iau, ou, iou, əu, an, in, uan, yn, on, uon, en, ien, yen, ən, uən, , iaŋ, uaŋ, , ioŋ, uoŋ, ŋ̍, iuŋ,

Tones

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No. 1 2 3 4 5 6
Tone name dark level
陰平
light level
陽平
rising
上聲
dark departing
陰去
light departing
陽去
entering
入聲
Tone contour ˨˩ (21) ˨ (22) ˥ (55) ˨˩˧ (213) ˧˥ (35) ˥˧ (53)

Notes

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

References

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  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. ^ 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. ^ 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.