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Fu'an dialect

The Fu'an dialect () is a dialect of Eastern Min, which is a branch of Min Chinese spoken mainly in the eastern part of Fujian Province, China.

The Fu'an dialect covers two city and three counties: Ningde, Fu'an, Shouning, Zhouning and Zherong County.

Phonology

The Fu'an dialect has 18 initials, 50 rimes and 7 tones.

Initials

Rimes

Tones

Progressive assimilation

Anticipatory assimilation

Tone sandhi

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). Shaded cells indicate that tones of both the first and second syllables undergo change.

Notes

References

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