Leizhou or ''Luichew'' Min (, ) is a branch of
Min Chinese
Min ( zh, t=, s=闽语, p=Mǐnyǔ, poj=Bân-gú / Bân-gír / Bân-gí; Bàng-uâ-cê, BUC: ''Mìng-ngṳ̄'') is a broad group of Sinitic languages with about 75 million native speakers. These languages are spoken in Fujian province and Chaoshan ...
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 ...
city,
Xuwen County
Xuwen County ( postal: Tsuimen or Suwen; ) is a county in the southwest of Guangdong Province, China. It is under the administration of Zhanjiang city.
Geography
Xuwen County is the southernmost county of Guangdong Province, at the southern end o ...
,
Mazhang District, most parts of
Suixi County and also spoken inside of the linguistically diverse
Xiashan District. In the classification of
Yuan Jiahua, it was included in the
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 ...
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'' ( zh, s=中国语言地图集, t=中國語言地圖集, p=Zhōngguó yǔyán dìtú jí), published by Hong Kong Longman Publishing Company in two parts in 1987 and 1989, maps the distribution of both the varietie ...
'', it was treated as a separate Min subgroup. Hou Jingyi combined it with
Hainanese
Hainanese ( Hainan Romanised: ''Hái-nâm-oe'', Hainanese Pinyin: ''Hhai3 nam2 ue1'', ), also known as Qiongwen (), Qiongyu () or Hainan Min () is a group of Min Chinese varieties spoken in the far southern Chinese island province of Hain ...
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 ( , ), or simply Taiwanese, also known as Taigi ( zh, c=臺語, tl=Tâi-gí), Taiwanese Southern Min ( zh, c=臺灣閩南語, tl=Tâi-uân Bân-lâm-gí), Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively ...
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Teochew dialect
Teochew, also known as Swatow or Teo-Swa, is a Southern Min language spoken by the Teochew people in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong and by their diaspora around the world. It is sometimes referred to as ''Chiuchow'', its Cantonese ...
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List of Chinese dialects
Notes
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
Year 988 ( CMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* Fall – Emperor Basil II, supported by a contingent of 6,000 Varangians (the future Varangian Guard), organiz ...
(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
Leizhou Min
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