The Hui'an dialect (), is a
variety of Chinese mostly spoken in
Hui'an in South
Fujian Province,
China
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. It belongs to the
Hokkien
Hokkien ( , ) is a Varieties of Chinese, variety of the Southern Min group of Chinese language, Chinese languages. Native to and originating from the Minnan region in the southeastern part of Fujian in southeastern China, it is also referred ...
subgroup of
Southern Min
Southern Min (), Minnan ( Mandarin pronunciation: ) or Banlam (), is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Chinese languages that form a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Fujian (especially the Minnan region), most of Taiwa ...
.
Phonology
The Hui'an dialect has 14 phonemic initials and over 80 finals.
Consonants
Finals
Grammar
The demonstrative system has five pairs of pronouns with a two-way distinction:
Comparison with other varieties of Hokkien
Compared with the
Quanzhou dialect
The Quanzhou dialects ( zh, s=泉州话, t=泉州話, poj=Choân-chiu-ōe), also rendered Chin-chew or Choanchew, are a collection of Hokkien dialects spoken in southern Fujian (in southeast China), in the area centered on the city of Quanzhou. ...
(spoken in the central
urban area
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of
Quanzhou
Quanzhou is a prefecture-level city, prefecture-level port city on the north bank of the Jin River, beside the Taiwan Strait in southern Fujian, China, People's Republic of China. It is Fujian's largest most populous metropolitan region, wi ...
city), the greatest differences are present in the rimes:
Notes
References
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Hokkien-language dialects
Quanzhou
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