Sanming dialect

The Sanming dialect (Central Min: 三明事, Mandarin Chinese: 三明話) is a dialect of Central Min spoken in urban areas of Sanming, a prefecture-level city in Western Fujian Province, China.

Phonology

The Sanming dialect has 18 initials, 37 rimes and 6 tones.

Initials

• Initials may also be heard as prenasal in free variation. When the two initials are followed by non-nasalized rimes, they can be heard as voiced plosives .
• Palato-alveolar sounds can also be heard as alveolo-palatal sounds in free variation among speakers.

Rimes

Tones

The entering tones in the Sanming dialect do not have any entering tone coda () such as , , and . This feature is quite different from many other Chinese dialects.

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