Jianyang (Kienyang) (Northern Min: Gṳ̿ing-iô̤ng-dī / 建陽事) is a dialect of Northern Min Chinese spoken in Jianyang in the north of Fujian province.
Jianyang | |
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Gṳ̿ing-iô̤ng-dī / 建陽事 | |
Native to | Southern China |
Region | Jianyang, Fujian |
Early forms | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | jian1241 |
Jianyang dialect has 18 initials, 34 rimes and 8 tones.
Stops | Nasals | Fricatives | Approx. | |
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p | pʰ | m | β | |
t | tʰ | n | l | |
ts | tsʰ | s | ||
k | kʰ | ŋ | x | |
ʔ | h | ɦ |
a | ia | ua | |
ɔ | iɔ | ||
o | uo | ||
e | ie | ue | ye |
ai | |||
ɔi | ui | ||
au | |||
au | iu | ||
i | y | ||
aŋ | iaŋ | uaŋ | |
ɔŋ | iɔŋ | uɔŋ | |
eiŋ | ieiŋ | ueiŋ | yeiŋ |
aiŋ | |||
ɔiŋ | |||
oŋ | iŋ | uŋ |
No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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Tone name | dark level 陰平 |
light level A 陽平甲 |
light level B 陽平乙 |
rising 上聲 |
dark departing 陰去 |
light departing 陽去 |
dark entering 陰入 |
light entering 陽入 |
Tone contour | ˥˧ (53) | ˧˧˦ (334) | ˦˩ (41) | ˨˩ (21) | ˧˧˨ (332) | ˦˧ (43) | ˨˩˦ (214) | ˦ (4) |
The entering tones in Jianyang dialect don't have any entering tone coda (入聲韻尾) such as /-ʔ/, /-p̚/, /-t̚/ and /-k̚/. It's quite different from many other Chinese dialects.