Ningde dialect

Ningde
Ningde
Ninh đức lời nói
Native to	Ningde,Fu gian
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Min Coastal Min Eastern Min Funing Ningde; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Proto-Sino-Tibetan Old Chinese Proto-Min ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
Linguasphere	79-AAA-icb
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TheNingde dialect(Eastern Min:Ninh đức lời nói) is a dialect ofEastern Min Chinesespoken in urban areas ofNingde,China,which is aprefecture-level cityin the northeastern coast ofFu gianprovince.

Phonology

The Ningde dialect has 15 initials, 78 rimes and 7 tones.

Initials

p,pʰ,m,t,tʰ,n,l,ts,tsʰ,s,k,kʰ,ŋ,x,ʔ

Rimes

10monophthongs:a,ɛ,œ,ø,ɔ,o,i,u,y

18 compound vowels:ai,ei,ɔi,oi,øy,au,ɛu,eu,ou,ia,ie,iu,iɐu,ua,uo,ui,uai,uoi

15 nasal rimes:aŋ,ɛŋ,eŋ,œŋ,øŋ,ɔŋ,oŋ,iŋ,uŋ,yŋ,iaŋ,iɛŋ,uaŋ,uoŋ,yøŋ

26 checked rimes:aʔ,ɛʔ,œʔ,øʔ,ɔʔ,iʔ,iaʔ,iɛʔ,uaʔ,uoʔ,yøʔ,ak̚,ɛk̚,ek̚,œk̚,øk̚,ɔk̚,ok̚,ik̚,uk̚,yk̚,iak̚,iɛk̚,uak̚,uok̚,yøk̚

These 6 nasal rimes tend to merge into nasal rimes ending with coda-ŋ,and will disappear in future:am,ɛm,em,im,iɛm,ɔn

These 5 checked rimes tend to merge into nasal rimes ending with coda-k̚,and will disappear in future:ap̚,ɛp̚,ep̚,ip̚,iɛp̚

Tones

No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Tone name	dark level Âm bình	light level Dương bình	rising Thượng thanh	dark departing Âm đi	light departing Dương đi	dark entering Âm nhập	light entering Dương nhập
Tone contour	˦(44)	˨(22)	˦˨(42)	˧˥(35)	˧˧˨(332)	˨(2)	˥(5)

Initial assimilation

The two-syllable initialassimilationrules are shown in the table below:

Coda of the Former Syllable	Initial Assimilation
Null coda	The initial of the latter syllable may change: /p/,/pʰ/change to null initial or /β/; /t/,/tʰ/and/s/change to/l/; /ts/and/tsʰ/change to null initial or /ʒ/; /k/,/kʰ/and/x/change to null initial; /m/,/n/,/l/,/ŋ/and null initial remain unchanged.
Nasal coda	The initial of the latter syllable may change: /p/and/pʰ/change to/m/; /t/,/tʰ/and/s/change to/n/; /ts/and/tsʰ/change to/ʒ/or/m/; /k/,/kʰ/,/x/and null initial change to/ŋ/or/m/; /m/,/n/,/l/and/ŋ/remain unchanged.
checked coda	The former syllable lost its checked coda at first; then, the initial assimilation of latter syllable follow the law above.
checked coda/-p̚/	The Initial of latter syllable change to/p/while the former syllable lost its checked coda/-p̚/

Tone sandhi

The Ningde dialect has extremely extensivetone sandhirules: in an utterance, only the last syllable pronounced is not affected by the rules. The two-syllable tonal sandhi rules are shown in the table below (the columns give the first syllable's original citation tone, while the rows give the citation tone of the second syllable):

	dark level 44	light level 22	rising 42	dark departing 35	light departing 332	dark entering 2	light entering 5
dark level 44	44		21	44	21	44	21
light level 22	remain unchanged
rising 42	55
dark departing 35	55
light departing 332	44		21	44	21	44	21
dark entering 2	55
light entering 5	44		21	44	21	44	21

Notes

^Min is believed to have split from Old Chinese, rather than Middle Chinese like other varieties of Chinese.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

^Mei, Tsu-lin(1970), "Tones and prosody in Middle Chinese and the origin of the rising tone",Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies,30:86–110,doi:10.2307/2718766,JSTOR 2718766
^Pulleyblank, Edwin G.(1984),Middle Chinese: A study in Historical Phonology,Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, p. 3,ISBN 978-0-7748-0192-8
^Hammarström, Harald;Forkel, Robert;Haspelmath, Martin;Bank, Sebastian (2023-07-10)."Glottolog 4.8 - Min".Glottolog.Leipzig:Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962.Archivedfrom the original on 2023-10-13.Retrieved2023-10-13.

Compilation Commission of Chorography of Ningde City ninh đức thị địa phương chí biên soạn ủy ban (1995).Ning de shi zhiNinh đức thị chí [ "Chorography of Ningde City" ].Vol. 31. Beijing:Zhonghua Book Company.ISBN 7-101-01543-3.

[minClassification-4] Min is believed to have split from Old Chinese, rather than Middle Chinese like other varieties of Chinese.^[1]^[2]^[3]

[1] Mei, Tsu-lin(1970), "Tones and prosody in Middle Chinese and the origin of the rising tone",Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies,30:86–110,doi:10.2307/2718766,JSTOR 2718766

[2] Pulleyblank, Edwin G.(1984),Middle Chinese: A study in Historical Phonology,Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, p. 3,ISBN 978-0-7748-0192-8

[glottoMin-3] Hammarström, Harald;Forkel, Robert;Haspelmath, Martin;Bank, Sebastian (2023-07-10)."Glottolog 4.8 - Min".Glottolog.Leipzig:Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962.Archivedfrom the original on 2023-10-13.Retrieved2023-10-13.

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