Haikou dialect

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Haikou
海口話
Pronunciation[hai˨˩˧xau˨˩˧ue˨˧]
Native toSouthern China
Region Haikou, Hainan
Early forms
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog hain1237
Linguasphere 79-AAA-ked
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The Haikou dialect is a topolect of Chinese and a subvariety of Hainanese spoken in Haikou, the capital of the Hainan province and island of China.

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Phonology

The Haikou dialect has the following initials: [4]

Labial Dental Sibilant Velar Glottal
Stop / Affricate voiceless ttskʔ
voiced implosive ɓɗ
Nasal mnŋ
Fricative voiceless fsxh
voiced vz
Lateral l

The finals are: [5]

Vocalic codasNasal codasStop codas
aaiauamapak
iaiauiamiaŋiapiak
uauaiuaŋuak
ɛeek
ue
oɔiɔuɔmɔŋɔpɔk
ioiɔŋiɔk
iiuiminipit
uuiunukok

There are also two syllabic nasals, /m̩/ and /ŋ̍/. [5]

The tone categories (described using Chao tone letters) are: [5] [6]

levelrisingdepartingentering
upper˨˦˨˩˧˧˥˥
lower˨˩˧˧
ʔ˥

See also

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. 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.
  4. Chen (1996), p. 4.
  5. 1 2 3 Chen (1996), p. 5.
  6. Yan (2006), p. 142.

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