The Swatow dialect, or in Mandarin the Shantou dialect, is a
Chinese dialect mostly spoken in
Shantou in
Guangdong
Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020 ...
,
China. It is a dialect of
Chaoshan Min language.
Shantou Dialect entry in Glossika
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Phonology
Shantou dialect has 18 initials, 61 rimes and 8 tones.
Initials
Rimes
Tones
Tone sandhi
Shantou dialect has extremely extensive tone sandhi
Tone sandhi is a phonological change occurring in tonal languages, in which the tones assigned to individual words or morphemes change based on the pronunciation of adjacent words or morphemes.
It usually simplifies a bidirectional tone into ...
rules: in an utterance, only the last syllable pronounced is not affected by the rules. The two-syllable tonal sandhi rules are shown in the table below:
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Guangdong
Southern Min
Shantou
Teochew dialect