The Ningde dialect (Eastern Min: ) is a dialect of Eastern Min Chinese spoken in urban areas of Ningde, China, which is a prefecture-level city in the northeastern coast of Fujian province.
The Ningde dialect has 15 initials, 78 rimes and 7 tones.
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10 monophthongs: , , , , , , , ,
18 compound vowels: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
15 nasal rimes: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
26 checked rimes: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
These 6 nasal rimes tend to merge into nasal rimes ending with coda , and will disappear in future: , , , , ,
These 5 checked rimes tend to merge into nasal rimes ending with coda , and will disappear in future: , , , ,
The two-syllable initial assimilation rules are shown in the table below:
The Ningde dialect has extremely extensive tone sandhi rules: in an utterance, only the last syllable pronounced is not affected by the rules. The two-syllable tonal sandhi rules are shown in the table below (the columns give the first syllable's original citation tone, while the rows give the citation tone of the second syllable):