| Younian dialect | |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| States: | China |
| Ethnicity: | （优念） |
| Fam1: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | Sinitic |
| Fam3: | Chinese |
| Fam4: | Pinghua |
| Speakers: | about <10000 |
| Date: | 1997 |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Notice: | IPA |
The Younian dialect is a dialect of Northern Pinghua spoken in northern Guangxi. It is spoken by ethnic Red Yao people in Longsheng County, Guilin, Guangxi province. There were more than 10,000 native speakers in 1997. It has been documented in detail by Ouyang (2010).
Different towns in Longsheng have different inventories of consonants, differing from 18 in Pannei township to more than 20 in Heping and Mati townships. The characters in this table are based on Heping township's dialect.[1]
| Labial | Alveolar | Alveolo-Palatal[2] | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ 麦问米木 | pronounced as /link/ 脑年南泥 | pronounced as /link/ 热蛾那燃 | pronounced as /link/[3] | pronounced as /link/ 月安岸岩 | ||||
| Plosive/Affricate | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ 八兵爬牌 | pronounced as /link/ 多甜早桃 | pronounced as /link/ 租竹主装 | pronounced as /link/ 张纸争齐 | pronounced as /link/ 高击姜劲 | |||
| aspirated | pronounced as /link/[4] 派劈拼片 | pronounced as /link/ 讨天刺字 | pronounced as /link/ 茶柱抄春 | pronounced as /link/ 拆车棋渠 | pronounced as /link/ 权开庆轻 | ||||
| Continuant | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ 副饭飞灰 | pronounced as /link/[5] 丝三酸想 | pronounced as /link/ 船山床县 | pronounced as /link/ 响凶形惜 | pronounced as /link/好获形合 | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/王黄放用 | pronounced as /link/ 绿乱来烂 | pronounced as /link/[6] | ||||||
| Zero initial | pronounced as /link/ 云荣劲益 | ||||||||
| ∅ | pronounced as /link/ 哪支眉芝 | pronounced as /link/ 徒猪浮富 | pronounced as /link/ 写舒殊吕 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | pronounced as /link/ 巴花夹杂 | 爷客沾孩 | 瓜瓦滑画 | ||
| o | pronounced as /link/ 他哭可竹 | 药肉六薄 | |||
| e | pronounced as /link/ 雪特力角 | 者接业热 | 决坑坑 | 月阅绝 | |
| u | 椒表苗尿 | ||||
| ai | 大牙台累 | 坏怀快块 | |||
| ei | 碎米细泥 | 杯税每类 | |||
| i | 火劈斧 | ||||
| au | 桃豆酒猴 | ||||
| eu | 多坐告稍 | 九疗休柔 | |||
| an | 三斩犯懒 | 茎银烟仍 | 含敢汗岸 | 愿援远泉 | |
| en | 根尊针跟 | 尖严点钱 | 全砖船文 | 元原券权 | |
| aŋ | 帮讲康冈 | 让向江争 | 创状壮撞 | ||
| eŋ | 朋肯恒晴 | 东葱风东 | 梁张箱唱 | ||
| ŋ | 五午无 |