Jianyang (Kienyang) ( Northern Min: / ) is a dialect of Northern Min

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spoken in Jianyang in the north of

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province.

Phonology

Jianyang dialect has 18 initials, 34 rimes and 8 tones.

Initials

* Fricative and affricate sounds /, , , / are realized as more palatal as , , when preceding front vowels. * // can be realized as an approximant [] within different segments.

Rimes

Tones

The entering tones in Jianyang dialect don't have any entering tone coda () such as , , and . It's quite different from many other Chinese dialects.

References

*Chen, Matthew (2000). ''Tone Sandhi: Patterns across Chinese Dialects''. CUP. *Norman, Jerry (1969). "The Kienyang Dialect of Fukien". Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. * Northern Min {{st-lang-stub