Old Xiang, also known as Lou-Shao (娄邵片 / 婁邵片), is a conservative
Xiang Chinese language. It is spoken in the central areas of
Hunan
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where it has been to some extent isolated from the neighboring Chinese languages,
Southwestern Mandarin and
Gan languages, and it retains the
voiced plosives of
Middle Chinese, which are otherwise only preserved in
Wu languages like
Shanghainese. See
Shuangfeng dialect for details.
Mao Zedong
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was a speaker of Old Xiang with his native
Shaoshan dialect.
Dialects and regions
The
Shuangfeng dialect is representative.
References
Further reading
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Xiang Chinese
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