Dongping dialect explained

Dongping dialect
Nativename:东平话
States:Urban Dongping County in the People's Republic of China
Region:China
Speakers:760,000
Date:no date
Familycolor:Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:Sinitic
Fam3:Chinese
Fam4:Mandarin
Fam5:Central Plains
Fam6:Yan-He region[1]
Isoexception:dialect
Glotto:none
Notice:IPA

The Dongping dialect is a Mandarin Chinese dialect spoken in Dongping County in Shandong province, China.

Tones

yin ping (Chinese: 陰平) yang ping (Chinese: 陽平) shang sheng (Chinese: 上聲) qu sheng (Chinese: 去聲)
Tone contour[2] 14pronounced as /˩˦/ 53pronounced as /˥˧/ 55pronounced as /˥/ 312pronounced as /˧˩˨/
Tone contour Before qingsheng 312pronounced as /˧˩˨/ 55pronounced as /˥/ 14pronounced as /˩˦/ 53pronounced as /˥˧/

Vocabulary

PersonFirst personSecond person
Odd number我/俺你/恁
Negative numberInclude interlocutors
Does not include interlocutors
Dongping dialectStandardChineseEnglish
worddialect[3] pinyin
he...的时候when
bán...一样...as ... as
xiévery
就儿jiù er顺便
náo不好bad
(Chinese: 以板击打)
告底gǎo dīr最终eventually
前儿qiè er前天the day before yesterday
夜儿yè er昨天yesterday
今儿jǐ mēnr今天today
明儿mià er明天tomorrow
清起来qíng qī lai早晨/早上
头晌午tòu sháng wu上午
晌午sháng wu中午noon
过晌午guǒ sháng wu下午afternoon
傍黑báng héir傍晚nightfall
后晌hòng hang晚上night
niǎ妈妈mom/mather
大大dāda爸爸pappy/father
mold
dǐng屁股butt

Notes and References

  1. 贺巍(He Wei).中原官话分区(稿).Beijing:中国社会科学院语言研究所。
  2. 《科技文汇》2014年3月 第272期
  3. Web site: 2011-06-17 . Dōngpíng fāngyán zhī cíhuì . zh:东平方言之词汇 . Vocabulary of the Dongping Dialect . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170823210225/http://www.dongping.gov.cn/contents/636/2194.html . 2017-08-23 . 2017-08-23 . Zhōngguó Dōngpíng . zh . zh:中国东平.