| Shuangfeng dialect | |
| Nativename: | 雙峰話 |
| States: | China |
| Region: | Shuangfeng, Hunan province |
| Speakers: | ? |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | Sinitic |
| Fam3: | Xiang |
| Fam4: | Old Xiang (Lou-Shao) |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Linglist: | hsn-luo |
| Glotto: | shua1258 |
| Glottorefname: | Shuangfeng |
| Notice: | IPA |
The Shuangfeng dialect is a dialect of Xiang Chinese, spoken in Shuangfeng County, Hunan province, China.
| nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plosives | voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| voiceless unaspirated | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| voiceless aspirated | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| fricatives | voiced | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| affricates | voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| voiceless unaspirated | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| voiceless aspirated | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| lateral approximants | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Oral | Nasal | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medial | ∅ | coda | a | e | i | u | n | ŋ | ∅ | i | |
| Nucleus | ∅ | pronounced as /əu/ | pronounced as /ɒŋ/ | pronounced as /æ̃/ | |||||||
| Vowel | pronounced as /i/ | pronounced as /ia/ | pronounced as /ie/ | pronounced as /iɛn/ | pronounced as /iɒŋ/ | pronounced as /ĩ/ | pronounced as /iĩ/ | ||||
| pronounced as /y/ | pronounced as /ya/ | pronounced as /ye/ | pronounced as /yɛn/ | ||||||||
| pronounced as /a/ | pronounced as /an/ | ||||||||||
| pronounced as /e/ | |||||||||||
| pronounced as /o/ | pronounced as /io/ | ||||||||||
| pronounced as /ɤ/ | pronounced as /iɤ/ | ||||||||||
| pronounced as /ʊ/ | pronounced as /iʊ/ | ||||||||||
| pronounced as /u/ | pronounced as /ua/ | pronounced as /ue/ | pronounced as /ui/ | pronounced as /uan/ | pronounced as /uĩ/ | ||||||
| Syllabic | pronounced as /ɹ̩/ | pronounced as /n̩/ | pronounced as /m̩/ | ||||||||
| pronounced as /ɻ̩/ | |||||||||||
Phonemically, Shuangfeng dialect has three tones. Phonetically, however, the pitch of a syllable depends on the voicing of the initial consonant so the tones are counted as five:
| Tone number | Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yin ping (陰平) | pronounced as /˥/ (55) | high | |
| 2 | yang ping (陽平) | pronounced as /˨˧/ (23) | low rising | |
| 3 | shang sheng (上聲) | pronounced as /˨˩/ (21) | low | |
| 4 | yin qu (陰去) | pronounced as /˧˥/ (35) | high rising | |
| 5 | yang qu (陽去) | pronounced as /˧/ (33) | mid |