Shuangfeng dialect

Shuangfeng dialect
雙峰話
Native to China
Region Shuangfeng, Hunan province
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Linguist list
hsn-luo
Glottolog None

Shuangfeng dialect (simplified Chinese: 双峰话; traditional Chinese: 雙峰話; pinyin: shuāngfēng huà) is a dialect of Xiang Chinese, spoken in Shuangfeng County, Hunan province.

Phonetics and Phonology

Consonants

Consonants of the Shuangfeng dialect
  bilabial alveolar alveolo-palatal retroflex velar
nasal m n ɲ   ŋ
plosives voiced b d     ɡ
voiceless unaspirated p t     k
voiceless aspirated    
fricatives voiced         ɣ
voiceless   s ɕ ʂ x
affricates voiced   dz  
voiceless unaspirated   ts  
voiceless aspirated   tsʰ tɕʰ tʂʰ  
lateral approximants   l      

Tones

Phonemically, Shuangfeng dialect has three tones. However, phonetically the pitch of a syllable depends on the voicing of the initial consonant, so that these are counted as five:

Tone chart of the Shuangfeng dialect
Tone number Tone name Tone contour Description
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

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