The Haikou dialect is a topolect of Chinese and a subvariety of Hainanese spoken in Haikou, the capital of the Hainan province and island of China.
Haikou | |
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海口話 | |
Pronunciation | [hai˨˩˧ xau˨˩˧ ue˨˧] |
Native to | Southern China |
Region | Haikou, Hainan |
Early forms | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | hain1237 |
Linguasphere | 79-AAA-ked |
The Haikou dialect has the following initials:[4]
Labial | Dental | Sibilant | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Stop / Affricate | voiceless | t | ts | k | ʔ | |
voiced implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | x | h | |
voiced | v | z | ||||
Lateral | l |
The finals are:[5]
Vocalic codas | Nasal codas | Stop codas | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
a | ai | au | am | aŋ | ap | ak | ||
ia | iau | iam | iaŋ | iap | iak | |||
ua | uai | uaŋ | uak | |||||
ɛ | e | eŋ | ek | |||||
ue | ||||||||
o | ɔi | ɔu | ɔm | ɔŋ | ɔp | ɔk | ||
io | iɔŋ | iɔk | ||||||
i | iu | im | in | ip | it | |||
u | ui | un | oŋ | uk | ok |
There are also two syllabic nasals, /m̩/ and /ŋ̍/.[5]
The tone categories (described using Chao tone letters) are:[5][6]
level | rising | departing | entering | |
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upper | 24 | 213 | 35 | 5 |
lower | 21 | 33 | 3 | |
55ʔ |