Younian dialect

The Younian dialect () is a dialect of Northern Pinghua spoken in northern Guangxi. It is spoken by ethnic Red Yao people in Longsheng County, Guilin, Guangxi province. There were more than 10,000 native speakers in 1997. It has been documented in detail by Ouyang (2010).

Phonology

Initials

Different towns in Longsheng have different inventories of consonants, differing from 18 in Pannei township to more than 20 in Heping and Mati townships. The characters in this table are based on Heping township's dialect.

• Heping has /x/ but no /h/, Pannei has /h/ but no /x/, and Mati has both.

Finals

Notes

References

• Ōuyáng, Lán 欧阳澜. 2010. GuǎngxÄ« lóngshèng hépíng xiāng yōuniànhuà yǔyÄ«n cíhuì yánjiÅ« 广西龙胜和平乡优念话语音词汇研究 [Research on the phonetics and vocabulary of Younianhua in Heping Town]. Doctoral dissertation, GuǎngxÄ« Normal University 广西师范大学.
• Li, Xinghui [李星辉]. 2018. Xiangan Jianghua Hanyu Tuhua yu Yaoyu bijiao yanjiu [湘南江华汉语土话与瑶语比较研究]. Beijing: Science Press [科学出版社].