Yong–Quan Xiang Explained

Yong–Quan Xiang
Script:Chinese characters
Nativename:永全片
States:China
Region:Hunan, Guangxi
Speakers:6.5 million
Date:no date
Familycolor:Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:Sinitic
Fam3:Xiang
Map:Hunanese Xiang Cities.png
Mapcaption:Yong-Quan Xiang is in green. The white dots are Yongzhou and Quanzhou County.
Iso3:none
Glotto:yong1285
Glottorefname:Yong-Quan

Yong–Quan Xiang is a Xiang Chinese language spoken in Guilin and southern Hunan that does not fit into the traditional New XiangOld Xiang dichotomy. It is geographically adjacent to the Old Xiang dialects that it was traditionally grouped with. The native-speaking population is mainly distributed in Yongzhou and surrounding areas.

The representative dialects are Yongzhou dialect and Qiyang dialect.

Yong-Quan Xiang retains a large number of Laminal consonant.