Sanming dialect
The Sanming dialect (Central Min: 三明事, Mandarin Chinese: 三明話) is a dialect of Central Min Chinese spoken in urban areas of Sanming, a prefecture-level city in Western Fujian Province, China.
| Sanming dialect | |
|---|---|
| 三明事 | |
| Pronunciation | [sɔ̃ ˥˥˧ mã˦˩ ʃia˧] |
| Native to | Southern China |
| Region | Sanming, Fujian |
Sino-Tibetan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
| Linguasphere | 79-AAA-hbb |
Phonology
The Sanming dialect has 18 initials, 37 rimes and 6 tones.
Initials
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||
| Stop | Tenuis | p | t | k | |
| Aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | ||
| Affricate | Tenuis | ts | tʃ | ||
| Aspirated | tsʰ | tʃʰ | |||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | x | ||
| Glide | l | ||||
- Initials /m, ŋ/ may also be heard as prenasal [mb, ŋɡ] in free variation. When the two initials are followed by non-nasalized rimes, they can be heard as voiced plosives [b, ɡ].
- Palato-alveolar sounds /tʃ, tʃʰ, ʃ/ can also be heard as alveolo-palatal sounds [tɕ, tɕʰ, ɕ] in free variation among speakers.
Rimes
| Open syllable | Nasal coda | Nasal vowel coda | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open mouth | ɹ̩ ɛ ɒ a ɯ ø | aɯ au | am aiŋ m̩ | ã ɔ̃ |
| Even mouth | i iɛ iɒ ia iɯ | iau | iam iaiŋ | iã iɔ̃ ɛ̃ |
| Closed mouth | u uɛ ui o | ŋ̍ | uã | |
| Round mouth | y yi yɛ yo | yaiŋ | yã yɛ̃ | |
Tones
| No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tone name | dark level 陰平 |
light level 陽平 |
dark rising 陰上 |
light rising 陽上 |
departing 去聲 |
entering 入聲 |
| Tone contour | ˥˥˧ 553 | ˦˩ 41 | ˨˩ 21 | ˨˩˧ 213 | ˧ 33 | ˩˨ 12 |
The entering tones in the Sanming dialect do not have any entering tone coda (入聲韻尾) such as /-ʔ/, /-p̚/, /-t̚/ and /-k̚/. This feature is quite different from many other Chinese dialects.
References
- Compilation Commission of Chorography of Sanming City 福建省三明市地方志编纂委员会 (2002). San ming shi zhi 三明市志 ["Chorography of Sanming City"]. Vol. 53. Beijing: Fangzhi chubanshe 方志出版社 ["Chorography Press"]. ISBN 978-7-80122-619-8.
- 吳, 瑞文 (Rui-Wen Wu) (2013). On the Grammatical Functions and Grammaticalization of tʰe5 in the Sanming Dialect [論三明方言tʰe5的語法功能及其語法化]. Language and Linguistics [語言暨語言學].
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