The Xianyou dialect (

Pu–Xian Min Pu–Xian Min ( Hinghwa Romanized: ''Pó-sing-gṳ̂''; ), also known as Putian–Xianyou Min, Puxian Min, Pu–Xian Chinese, Xinghua, Henghua, Hinghua or Hinghwa (''Hing-hua̍-gṳ̂''; ), is a Chinese language that forms a branch of Min Chine ...

: / ; ) is a dialect of

Chinese spoken in

Xianyou Xianyou (; Puxian Min: ) is a county in the municipal region of Putian, in eastern Fujian Fujian is a provinces of China, province in East China, southeastern China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong ...

Putian Putian ( zh, s= , Putian dialect: ''Pó-chéng''), also known as Puyang (莆阳) and Puxian (莆仙), historically known as Hinghwa/Hinghua ( zh, s=兴化, t=興化), is a prefecture-level city in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. I ...

in the southeast coast of

Fujian Fujian is a provinces of China, province in East China, southeastern 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 capital is Fuzhou and its largest prefe ...

province,

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

Phonology

The Xianyou dialect has 15 initials, 45 rimes and 7 tones.

Initials

Rimes

Tones

Assimilation

Tone sandhi

The Xianyou dialect has extremely extensive tone

sandhi Sandhi ( ; , ) is any of a wide variety of sound changes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries. Examples include fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of one sound depending on nearby sounds or the grammatical function o ...

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 (the rows give the first syllable's original citation tone, while the columns give the citation tone of the second syllable):

Notes

References

* {{Chinese language Pu-Xian Min