Jianyang (Kienyang) (Northern Min: / ) is a dialect of Northern Min Chinese spoken in Jianyang in the north of Fujian province.
Phonology
Jianyang dialect has 18 initials, 34 rimes and 8 tones.
Initials
- Fricative and affricate sounds /, , , / are realized as more palatal as [, , , ], when preceding front vowels.
- // can be realized as an approximant [] within different segments.
Rimes
Tones
The entering tones in Jianyang dialect don't have any entering tone coda () such as , , and . It's quite different from many other Chinese dialects.
Notes
References
- Chen, Matthew (2000). Tone Sandhi: Patterns across Chinese Dialects. CUP.
- Norman, Jerry (1969). "The Kienyang Dialect of Fukien". Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.