| Yi-Liu | |
| Nativename: | Yichun |
| States: | China |
| Region: | Central and western Jiangxi |
| Speakers: | ? |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | Sinitic |
| Fam3: | Chinese |
| Fam4: | Gan |
| Iso3: | none |
| Iso6: | yilu |
| Glotto: | yili1247 |
| Glottorefname: | Yi-Liu |
| Lingua: | 79-AAA-faf |
| Notice: | IPA |
| Script: | Chinese characters |
| Map: | Gan_Dialects.png |
| Mapcaption: | Map of Gan languages; Yi-Liu-speaking region in yellow. |
Yi-Liu, sometimes called Yichun after its principal dialect, is one of the Gan Chinese languages. It is spoken in Yichun in Jiangxi province and in Liuyang in Hunan, after which it is named, as well as in Shanggao, Qingjiang, Xingan, Xinyu City, Fen yi, Pingxiang City, Fengcheng, Wanzai in Jiangxi and in Liling in Hunan.
The Yichun variety will be taken as representative.
| Nasal | m | ɲ | ŋ | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | ||||
| unaspirated | p | t | k | |||||
| Affricate | aspirated | tsʰ | tɕʰ | tʃʰ | ||||
| unaspirated | ts | tɕ | tʃ | |||||
| Fricative | f | s | ɕ | ʃ | h | |||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||
| Tone number | Examples | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dark level (Chinese: 阴平) | pronounced as /˨˦/ (25) | 多家彪都姑波编邦 | |
| 2 | light level (Chinese: 阳平) | pronounced as /˦/ (44) | 婆爬钱磨驴朋肥扶 | |
| 3 | rising sheng (Chinese: 上声) | pronounced as /˧˩/ (31) | 左努改讨巧草拐苦 | |
| 4 | light departing (Chinese: 去声) | pronounced as /˨˩˧/ (213) | 大树害饭谢用望漏 | |
| 5 | departing sheng (Chinese: 入声) | pronounced as /˥/ (55) | 月六黑割发白湿毒 |