Ying-Yi dialect
| Ying-Yi | |
|---|---|
| Yingtan | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Northeastern Jiangxi |
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Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| ISO 639-6 |
yiyi |
| Glottolog |
ying1246[1] |
Ying-Yi, sometimes called Yingtan dialect after its principal variety, is a dialect of the Gan Chinese. It is named after Yingtan and Yiyang, and is spoken in those areas as well as in Yugan Guixi, Yujiang, Wannian, Leping, Poyang, Pengze, Hengfeng, Chuanshan in Jiangxi province.
Sounds
The Yugan variety of Ying-Yi will be taken as representative.
Consonants
| bilabial | alveolar | alveolo-palatal | Post- alveolar |
velar | glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | ɲ | ŋ | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless unaspirated | p | t | k | |||
| voiceless aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | ||||
| Affricate | voiceless unaspirated | ts | tɕ | tʃ | |||
| voiceless aspirated | tsʰ | tɕʰ | tʃʰ | ||||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | ɕ | ʃ | h | ||
| Lateral approximant | l | ||||||
Tones
Citation tones
| Tone number | Tone name | Tone contour | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yin ping (陰平) | ˧ (33) | falling |
| 2 | yang ping (陽平) | ˩˦ (14) | rising |
| 3 | shang sheng (上聲) | ˨˩˧ (213) | dipping |
| 4 | yin qu (陰去) | ˦˥ (45) | high |
| 5 | yang qu (陽去) | ˩˨ (12) | low |
| 6 | ru sheng (入聲) | ˩˦̚ (14) | checked |
| 7 | ru sheng (入聲) | ˩̚ (1) | checked |
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ying-Yi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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