The Jiangle dialect is a dialect of
Shao-Jiang Min
Shao–Jiang or Shaojiang Min () is a Min Chinese language centered on Western Nanping in Northwest Fujian, specifically in the Nanping counties of Guangze, Shaowu, and Western Shunchang and the Northern Sanming county of Jiangle.
Shao-Jiang ...
Chinese spoken in
Jiangle,
Sanming in northwestern
Fujian
Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its ...
province,
China
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. It combines elements from
Northern Min
Northern Min () is a group of mutually intelligible Min varieties spoken in Nanping prefecture of northwestern Fujian.
Classification and distribution
Early classifications of varieties of Chinese, such as those of Li Fang-Kuei in 1937 and ...
and
Hakka Chinese
Hakka (, , ) forms a language group of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people throughout Southern China and Taiwan and throughout the diaspora areas of East Asia, Southeast Asia and in overseas Chinese communities aroun ...
.
Phonology
The Jiangle dialect has 19 initials, 36 rimes and 7 tones.
Initials
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Rimes
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Tones
References
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Min Chinese
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