Ying–Yi Gan Explained

Ying-Yi
Nativename:	Yingtan
States:	China
Region:	Northeastern Jiangxi
Speakers:	?
Familycolor:	Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:	Sinitic
Fam3:	Chinese
Fam4:	Gan
Iso3:	none
Iso6:	yiyi
Glotto:	ying1246
Glottorefname:	Ying-Yi
Notice:	IPA
Script:	Chinese characters
Map:	Gan_Dialects.png
Mapcaption:	Map of Gan languages; Ying–Yi-speaking region in blue.

Ying-Yi, sometimes called Yingtan after its principal dialect, is one of the Gan Chinese languages. It is named after Yingtan and Yiyang, and is spoken in those areas as well as in Yugan Guixi, Yujiang, Wannian, Leping, Poyang, Pengze, Hengfeng, Chuanshan in Jiangxi province.

Sounds

The Yugan variety of Ying-Yi will be taken as representative.

Consonants

! bilabial! alveolar! alveolo-palatal! Post-
alveolar! velar! glottal
Nasal		pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/
Plosive	voiceless unaspirated	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/			pronounced as /link/
Plosive	voiceless aspirated	pronounced as /pʰ/	pronounced as /tʰ/			pronounced as /kʰ/
Affricate	voiceless unaspirated		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Affricate	voiceless aspirated		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Fricative		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/
Lateral approximant			pronounced as /link/

Tones

Citation tones

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Tone chart of Yugan Gan
Tone number			Description
1	yin ping (Chinese: 陰平)	pronounced as /˧/ (33)	falling
2	yang ping (Chinese: 陽平)	pronounced as /˩˦/ (14)	rising
3	shang sheng (Chinese: 上聲)	pronounced as /˨˩˧/ (213)	dipping
4	yin qu (Chinese: 陰去)	pronounced as /˦˥/ (45)	high
5	yang qu (Chinese: 陽去)	pronounced as /˩˨/ (12)	low
6	ru sheng (Chinese: 入聲)	pronounced as /˩˦̚/ (14)	checked (Boolean value)
7	ru sheng (Chinese: 入聲)	pronounced as /˩̚/ (1)	checked (Boolean value)