Qingtian dialect
Appearance
| Qingtian | |
|---|---|
| 青田話 Chin1-dia2-wu6 | |
| Pronunciation | tɕiŋ³³⁴ tiɑ³¹ ɦu²² |
| Native to | People's Republic of China, Countries with significant populations of Qingtianese diaspora |
| Region | Qingtian county, Lishui prefecture, Zhejiang province |
Native speakers | ~518,000 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | Noneqing1241 Qingtian |
The Qingtian dialect (simplified Chinese: 青田话; traditional Chinese: 青田話; pinyin: Qīngtiánhuà, Wugniu: Chin1-dia2-wu6) is a dialect of the Chinese language, and is one of the Chuqu dialects of Wu Chinese spoken in Quzhou and Lishui prefectures of Zhejiang.[1]
Aside from being spoken in Qingtian county of Lishui prefecture in Zhejiang, China, the dialect is also widely spoken in countries where diasporas from Qingtian settle.
Phonology
[edit]The standard version of Qingtian dialect is based on the town of Hecheng (鹤城, go4-yin2), and has 29 initials, 49 finals, and 8 tones.
| p1 班包 | t1 丹當 | k 街狗 | ts 齋基 | tɕ 姜专 |
| pʰ 攀抛 | tʰ 攤湯 | kʰ 揩口 | tsʰ 搓妻 | tɕʰ 枪川 |
| b 排旁 | d 談堂 | g 銜白讀厚文讀 | dz 站奇 | dʑ 强權 |
| m 媽忙 | n 奶閙 | ŋ 蟻文讀牛 | ȵ 你元 | |
| f 翻方 | h 喊吼 | s 山西 | ɕ 相宣 | |
| v 凡房 | ɦ 鞋侯 | z 柴齊 | j 祥員 | |
| l 拉郎 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Tolchinsky, Liliana; Salas, Naymé (2009). "Written Representations of Nominal Morphology by Chinese and Moroccan Children Learning a Romance Language". In Bazerman, Charles; et al. (eds.). Traditions of Writing Research (illustrated ed.). New York: Routledge. p. 154. doi:10.4324/9780203892329-19. ISBN 978-0-415-99337-1.
Eighty-four children participate in the study: 28 Chinese children, mostly from Zhejiang—a province south to Shanghai, speakers of Qing Tian Hua; 26 Moroccan children mostly from North Morocco, speakers of Darija—i.e., Moroccan Arabic...
External links
[edit]- A Study on the Phonetics of the Qingtian Dialect Archived 2021-12-23 at the Wayback Machine