Haikou_dialect

Haikou dialect

Haikou dialect

Min Chinese dialect of Hainan, China

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]

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The finals are:[5]

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

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

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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. [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.
  4. [4]
    Chen (1996), p. 4.
  5. [5]
    Chen (1996), p. 5.
  6. [6]
    Yan (2006), p. 142.

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