Jianyang dialect explained

Jianyang
Nativename: / 建陽事
States:Southern China
Region:Jianyang, Fujian
Speakers:?
Familycolor:Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:Sinitic
Fam3:Chinese
Fam4:Min
Fam5:Inland Min
Fam6:Northern Min
Ancestor:Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Ancestor2:Old Chinese
Ancestor3:Proto-Min
Isoexception:dialect
Glotto:jian1241
Glottorefname:Jianyang
Notice:IPA

Jianyang (Kienyang) (Northern Min: / 建陽事) is a dialect of Northern Min Chinese spoken in Jianyang in the north of Fujian province.

Phonology

Jianyang dialect has 18 initials, 34 rimes and 8 tones.

Initials

StopsNasalsFricativesApprox.
pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/
pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/
pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/
pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/
pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/

Rimes

pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /ia/ pronounced as /ua/
pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /iɔ/
pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /uo/
pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /ie/ pronounced as /ue/ pronounced as /ye/
pronounced as /ai/
pronounced as /ɔi/ pronounced as /ui/
pronounced as /au/
pronounced as /au/ pronounced as /iu/
pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/
pronounced as /aŋ/ pronounced as /iaŋ/ pronounced as /uaŋ/
pronounced as /ɔŋ/ pronounced as /iɔŋ/ pronounced as /uɔŋ/
pronounced as /eiŋ/ pronounced as /ieiŋ/ pronounced as /ueiŋ/ pronounced as /yeiŋ/
pronounced as /aiŋ/
pronounced as /ɔiŋ/
pronounced as /oŋ/ pronounced as /iŋ/ pronounced as /uŋ/

Tones

No.12345678
Tone namedark level
陰平
light level A
陽平甲
light level B
陽平乙
rising
上聲
dark departing
陰去
light departing
陽去
dark entering
陰入
light entering
陽入
Tone contourpronounced as /˥˧/ (53)pronounced as /˧˧˦/ (334)pronounced as /˦˩/ (41)pronounced as /˨˩/ (21)pronounced as /˧˧˨/ (332)pronounced as /˦˧/ (43)pronounced as /˨˩˦/ (214)pronounced as /˦/ (4)
The entering tones in Jianyang dialect don't have any entering tone coda (Chinese: 入聲韻尾) such as pronounced as //-ʔ//, pronounced as //-p̚//, pronounced as //-t̚// and pronounced as //-k̚//. It's quite different from many other Chinese dialects.

References