Leizhou or ''Luichew'' Min (, ) is a branch of
Min Chinese spoken in
Leizhou
Leizhou () is a county-level city in Guangdong Province, China. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Zhanjiang.
The city was formerly known as Haikang County ( postal: Hoihong); it was upgraded into a city in 1994.
G ...
city,
Xuwen County,
Mazhang District, most parts of
Suixi County and also spoken inside of the linguistically diverse
Xiashan District
Xiashan District () is a district in the city of Zhanjiang, Guangdong province
Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of ...
. In the classification of
Yuan Jiahua
Yuan Jiahua (, ; January 19034 September 1980) was a Chinese linguist and dialectologist from Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province. He graduated from the English Department of Peking University in 1932, worked as an editor in the North Shanghai New Boo ...
, it was included in the
Southern Min group, though it has low intelligibility with other Southern Min varieties. In the classification of
Li Rong, used by the ''
Language Atlas of China
The ''Language Atlas of China'' (), published in two parts in 1987 and 1989, maps the distribution of both the varieties of Chinese and minority languages of China.
It was a collaborative effort by the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the ...
'', it was treated as a separate Min subgroup. Hou Jingyi combined it with
Hainanese in a Qiong–Lei group.
Phonology
Leizhou Min has 17 initials, 47 rimes and 8 tones.
Initials
The phoneme given here as is described by Li and Thompson instead as .
Rimes
Tones
Leizhou has six tones, which are reduced to two in checked syllables.
See also
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Taiwanese Hokkien
Taiwanese Hokkien () (; Tâi-lô: ''Tâi-uân-uē''), also known as Taigi/Taigu (; Pe̍h-ōe-jī/ Tâi-lô: ''Tâi-gí / Tâi-gú''), Taiwanese, Taiwanese Minnan, Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively by about ...
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Teochew dialect
Teochew or Chaozhou (, , , Teochew endonym: , Shantou dialect: ) is a dialect of Chaoshan Min, a Southern Min language, that is spoken by the Teochew people in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong and by their diaspora around the world. ...
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List of Chinese dialects
The following is a list of Sinitic languages and their dialects. For a traditional dialectological overview, see also varieties of Chinese.
Classification
'Chinese' is a blanket term covering the many different varieties spoken across China. ...
References
*Běijīng dàxué zhōngguóyǔyánwénxuéxì yǔyánxué jiàoyánshì. (1989) H''ànyǔ fāngyīn zìhuì''. Běijīng: Wénzìgǎigé chūbǎnshè.(北京大學中國語言文學系語言學教研室. 1989. 漢語方音字匯. 北京: 文字改革出版社)
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Norman, Jerry.
988(2002). ''Chinese''. Cambridge, England: CUP
*Yuán, jiāhuá (1989). ''Hànyǔ fāngyán gàiyào'' (An introduction to Chinese dialects). Beijing, China: Wénzì gǎigé chūbǎnshè. (袁家驊. 1989. 漢語方言概要. 北京:文字改革出版社.)
*Zhū, yuèmíng. (2005) "Léizhōuhuà yú Pǔtōnghuà bǐjiàoyīnxì yánjiū" (Comparative phonological studies on the Leizhou dialect and Putonghua) ''Yúnnán shīfàndàxué xuébào (zhéxué shèhuìkēxué bǎn)'' (Yunnan Normal University Journal (philosophy and social sciences)): vol.37 no. 5 p. 133-136. (朱月明. 2005. "雷州話與普通話音系比較研究" 《雲南師範大學學報 (哲學社會科學版)》: 第 37 卷 第 5 期 頁133-136)
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Further reading
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External links
Cantonese and other dialects(in Chinese)
Classification of Northern Min Dialects from Glossika
Min Chinese
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