Chinese Pinghua dialect spoken in Guangxi
The Younian dialect (Chinese: 优念话; pinyin: Yōuniànhuà) is a dialect of Northern Pinghua spoken in northern Guangxi. It is spoken by ethnic Red Yao people in Longsheng County, Guilin, Guangxi province. There were more than 10,000 native speakers in 1997. It has been documented in detail by Ouyang (2010).
Phonology
Initials
Different towns in Longsheng have different inventories of consonants, differing from 18 in Pannei township to more than 20 in Heping and Mati townships. The characters in this table are based on Heping township's dialect.[1]
- Heping has /x/ but no /h/, Pannei has /h/ but no /x/, and Mati has both.
Finals
References
- ^ Mao Zongwu [毛宗武]. 2007. Younuoyu yanjiu (A Study of Younuo) [优诺语研究]. Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House [民族出版社]. p.1.
- ^ a b c Absent in the dialect of Pannei township.
- ^ Only found in the Pannei dialect.
- ^ Not present in Mati township dialect.
- ^ This sound is also transcribed as /l̥/
- ^ /j/ is an allophone of the zero initial in Mati and Heping township dialects, or of /i/ after the zero initial.
- ^ 欧阳澜 (2012-04-28). "广西龙胜和平乡红瑶优念话音系". 湖北第二师范学院学报 (12): 46–51. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-344X.2011.12.012. Archived from the original on 2019-02-22. Retrieved 2018-11-13.
- Ōuyáng, Lán 欧阳澜. 2010. Guǎngxī lóngshèng hépíng xiāng yōuniànhuà yǔyīn cíhuì yánjiū 广西龙胜和平乡优念话语音词汇研究 [Research on the phonetics and vocabulary of Younianhua in Heping Town]. Doctoral dissertation, Guǎngxī Normal University 广西师范大学.
- Li, Xinghui [李星辉]. 2018. Xiangan Jianghua Hanyu Tuhua yu Yaoyu bijiao yanjiu [湘南江华汉语土话与瑶语比较研究]. Beijing: Science Press [科学出版社]. ISBN 9787030577825
