| Haikou | |
| Nativename: | 海口話 |
| Pronunciation: | pronounced as /[hai˨˩˧ xau˨˩˧ ue˨˧]/ |
| States: | Southern China |
| Region: | Haikou, Hainan |
| Speakers: | ? |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | Sinitic |
| Fam3: | Chinese |
| Fam4: | Min |
| Fam5: | Coastal Min |
| Fam6: | Qiong–Lei |
| Fam7: | Hainanese |
| Ancestor: | Proto-Sino-Tibetan |
| Ancestor2: | Old Chinese |
| Ancestor3: | Proto-Min |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Glotto: | hain1237 |
| Glottorefname: | Fucheng |
| Lingua: | 79-AAA-ked |
| Notice: | IPA |
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.
The Haikou dialect has the following initials:
| Labial | Sibilant | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop / Affricate | t | ts | k | ʔ | |||
| ɓ | ɗ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||
| Fricative | f | s | x | h | |||
| v | z | ||||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||
The finals are:
| Vocalic codas | Nasal codas | Stop codas | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | ai | au | am | aŋ | ap | ak | |||
| ia | iau | iam | iaŋ | iap | iak | ||||
| ua | uai | uaŋ | uak | ||||||
| ɛ | e | eŋ | ek | ||||||
| ue | |||||||||
| o | ɔi | ɔu | ɔm | ɔŋ | ɔp | ɔk | |||
| io | iɔŋ | iɔk | |||||||
| i | iu | im | in | ip | it | ||||
| u | ui | un | oŋ | uk | ok | ||||
There are also two syllabic nasals, /m̩/ and /ŋ̍/.
The tone categories (described using Chao tone letters) are:
| level | rising | departing | entering | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| upper | 24 | 213 | 35 | 5 |
| lower | 21 | 33 | 3 | |
| 55ʔ | ||||