The Shuangfeng dialect (simplified Chinese: 双峰话; traditional Chinese: 雙峰話; pinyin: Shuāngfēnghuà) is a dialect of Xiang Chinese, spoken in Shuangfeng County, Hunan province, China.
Shuangfeng dialect | |
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雙峰話 | |
Native to | China |
Region | Shuangfeng, Hunan province |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
hsn-luo | |
Glottolog | shua1258 |
bilabial | alveolar | alveolo-palatal | retroflex | velar | ||
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nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
plosives | voiced | b | d | ɡ | ||
voiceless unaspirated | p | t | k | |||
voiceless aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | |||
fricatives | voiced | ɣ | ||||
voiceless | s | ɕ | ʂ | x | ||
affricates | voiced | dz | dʑ | dʐ | ||
voiceless unaspirated | ts | tɕ | tʂ | |||
voiceless aspirated | tsʰ | tɕʰ | tʂʰ | |||
lateral approximants | l |
Oral | Nasal | ||||||||||
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Medial | ∅ | coda | a | e | i | u | n | ŋ | ∅ | i | |
Nucleus | ∅ | əu | ɒŋ | æ̃ | |||||||
Vowel | i | ia | ie | iɛn | iɒŋ | ĩ | iĩ | ||||
y | ya | ye | yɛn | ||||||||
a | an | ||||||||||
e | |||||||||||
o | io | ||||||||||
ɤ | iɤ | ||||||||||
ʊ | iʊ | ||||||||||
u | ua | ue | ui | uan | uĩ | ||||||
Syllabic | ɹ̩ | n̩ | m̩ | ||||||||
ɻ̩ |
Phonemically, Shuangfeng dialect has three tones. Phonetically, however, the pitch of a syllable depends on the voicing of the initial consonant so the tones are counted as five:
Tone number | Tone name | Tone contour | Description |
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1 | yin ping (陰平) | ˥ (55) | high |
2 | yang ping (陽平) | ˨˧ (23) | low rising |
3 | shang sheng (上聲) | ˨˩ (21) | low |
4 | yin qu (陰去) | ˧˥ (35) | high rising |
5 | yang qu (陽去) | ˧ (33) | mid |