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Leizhou Min

Leizhou or Luichew Min (, ) is a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Leizhou city, Xuwen County, Mazhang District, most parts of Suixi County and also spoken inside of the linguistically diverse Xiashan District. In the classification of Yuan Jiahua, it was included in the Southern Min group, though it has low intelligibility with other Southern Min varieties. In the classification of Li Rong, used by the Language Atlas of China, it was treated as a separate Min subgroup. Hou Jingyi combined it with Hainanese in a Qiong–Lei group.

Phonology

Leizhou Min has 17 initials, 47 rimes and 8 tones.

Initials

The phoneme given here as is described by Li and Thompson instead as .

Rimes

Tones

Leizhou has six tones, which are reduced to two in checked syllables.

See also

Notes

References

  • BěijÄ«ng dàxué zhōngguóyǔyánwénxuéxì yǔyánxué jiàoyánshì. (1989) Hànyǔ fāngyÄ«n zìhuì. BěijÄ«ng: Wénzìgǎigé chÅ«bǎnshè.(北京大學中國語言文學系語言學教研室. 1989. 漢語方音字匯. 北京: 文字改革出版社)
  • Norman, Jerry. [1988] (2002). Chinese. Cambridge, England: CUP
  • Yuán, jiāhuá (1989). Hànyǔ fāngyán gàiyào (An introduction to Chinese dialects). Beijing, China: Wénzì gǎigé chÅ«bǎnshè. (袁家驊. 1989. 漢語方言概要. 北京:文字改革出版社.)
  • ZhÅ«, yuèmíng. (2005) "Léizhōuhuà yú Pǔtōnghuà bǐjiàoyÄ«nxì yánjiÅ«" (Comparative phonological studies on the Leizhou dialect and Putonghua) Yúnnán shÄ«fàndàxué xuébào (zhéxué shèhuìkēxué bǎn) (Yunnan Normal University Journal (philosophy and social sciences)): vol.37 no. 5 p. 133-136. (朱月明. 2005. "雷州話與普通話音系比較研究" 《雲南師範大學學報 (哲學社會科學版)》: 第 37 卷 第 5 期 頁133-136)

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