The Fangcheng dialect (; local Jyutping: Fong<sup>4</sup>sing<sup>4</sup> baak<sup>4</sup>waa<sup>4</sup>; IPA: , ) also rendered Fongsing Jyut dialect, is a dialect of Yue (Cantonese), spoken in the southern area closer to the sea of former Fangcheng County(é²åÂÂ縣), which was divided present-day Dongxing City(æ±èÂÂå¸Â), Fangcheng District(é²åÂÂÃ¥ÂÂ) and Gangkou District(港å£åÂÂ).
As a variety of Cantonese, it is intelligible with Guangzhou Cantonese.
Due to the policy on the promotion of Putonghua and the influx of foreign population who doesn't speak Yue Chinese, the level of dialect use among local young people is declining.
Except for most of the consonants that are the same as in Standard Cantonese, there are also several other consonants in Fangcheng Yue Dialect. The extended Jyutping(Jyut++) will be used to transcribe the phonemes as follows.
Fangcheng Yue has six vowels, , , , , , and .
And two diphthongs only exist before -Ã Â and -k, each pair of sounds of theirs has almost equal weight respectively, which do not lend themselves to analysis as ending analyzed to ending as -j or -w phonemely.
Moreover, Fangcheng Yue finals exhibit the final consonants found in Middle Chinese, namely . Which are romanized as m, n, ng, p, t, and k respectively.
Fangcheng Yue dialect has 6 or 7 tones.