Old Guangde dialect explained
Old Guangde dialect |
Nativename: | 老廣德話 |
States: | People's Republic of China |
Region: | Guangde county in Anhui province |
Speakers: | ? |
Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
Fam2: | Sinitic |
Fam3: | Wu |
Fam4: | Taihu |
Fam5: | Su-Jia-Hu |
Isoexception: | dialect |
Linglist: | wuu-tai |
Glotto: | none |
The Old Guangde dialect is a Northern Wu dialect spoken in southeastern Anhui province in southeastern Guangde county, China. It is now losing ground to the New Guangde dialect, a Jianghuai Mandarin dialect. It is closely related to Shanghainese and the Suzhou dialect, but its closest relative is the Huzhou dialect. It is a Northern Wu dialect exclave surrounded by speakers of Jianghuai Mandarin and Xuanzhou Wu.
Phonology
Initials
p | Chinese: 布別 | pʰ | Chinese: 怕泡 | b | Chinese: 步盤 | m | Chinese: 門妹 | f | Chinese: 飛夫 | v | Chinese: 符飯 |
t | Chinese: 到黨 | tʰ | Chinese: 太討 | d | Chinese: 同地 | l | Chinese: 難路 |
k | Chinese: 高貴 | kʰ | Chinese: 開快 | g | Chinese: 葵 | ŋ | Chinese: 牙硬 | h | Chinese: 灰化 | ɦ | Chinese: 話紅 |
ʨ | Chinese: 精檢主 | ʨʰ | Chinese: 秋去醜 | ʥ | Chinese: 旗橋 | ȵ | Chinese: 女日硯 | ɕ | Chinese: 修收書 | ʑ | Chinese: 玄蛇 |
ts | Chinese: 招爭祖 | tsʰ | Chinese: 昌倉初 | dz | Chinese: 曹蟲鋤 | | s | Chinese: 三生聲 | z | Chinese: 上 |
Ø | Chinese: 耳姨午雲 | |
Finals
ɿ | Chinese: 絲支 | i | Chinese: 蛇爺天弟飛 | u | Chinese: 古午 | ʮ | Chinese: 雨書 |
ɚ | Chinese: 耳兒 |
a | Chinese: 爬啞 | ia | Chinese: 亞架 | ua | Chinese: 瓜話 |
ɛ | Chinese: 袋膽 | iɛ | Chinese: 香張 | uɛ | Chinese: 怪關 |
| Chinese: ie | Chinese: 姐 |
ɯ | Chinese: 猴盤短岸 | iɯ | Chinese: 流手 | uɯ | Chinese: 官碗 |
o | Chinese: 河 |
ɔ | Chinese: 保桃 | iɔ | Chinese: 條繞 |
ei | Chinese: 被妹 | uei | Chinese: 桂灰 | | yei | Chinese: 水船圓 |
en | Chinese: 根門 | in | Chinese: 心認 | un | Chinese: 溫魂 | yn | Chinese: 雲閏 |
aŋ | Chinese: 黨床 | iaŋ | Chinese: 將揚 | uaŋ | Chinese: 光黃 |
oŋ | Chinese: 從紅翁 | ioŋ | Chinese: 窮雄 |
aʔ | Chinese: 辣甲 | iaʔ | Chinese: 甲腳藥 | uaʔ | Chinese: 刮滑 |
əʔ | Chinese: 色割白北百 | iəʔ | Chinese: 踢鐵熱 | | yəʔ | Chinese: 缺月 |
oʔ | Chinese: 綠合落郭 | ioʔ | Chinese: 欲約確 | uoʔ | Chinese: 谷國活 |
m̩ | Chinese: 姆 | |
Tones
Traditional description | Tone | Examples |
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陰平 Yin Ping | 34(33) | 高天三開 |
陽平 Yang Ping | 14 | 陳盤窮田 |
陰上 Yin Shang | 54(55) | 古姐麻娘 |
陽上 Yang Shang | 21 | 老女近父 |
去聲 Qu Sheng | 324 | 蓋放岸用 共大樹飯 |
陰入 Yin Ru | 5 | 急尺藥合 |
陰上 Yin Shang | 12 | 食讀服實 | |