Yong'an dialect

The Yong'an dialect (Central Min: 永安事, Mandarin Chinese: 永安話) is a Central Min dialect spoken in Yong'an, Sanming in Western Fujian Province, China.

Phonology

The Yong'an dialect has 17 initials, 41 rimes and 6 tones.

Initials

The initials of the Yong'an dialect are:

• The initials and occur in free variation.
• can also be heard as voiced plosives in free variation.
• Palato-alveolar sounds can also be heard as alveolo-palatal sounds in free variation among speakers.

Rimes

The Yong'an dialect has a rich set of oral and nasal vowels, but allows only -m and -ŋ as a final consonant.

Tones

The tones are:

Tone sandhi

The Yong'an 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:

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