Changsha dialect

Changsha dialect
长沙话 Tsã¹³sɔ³³ɣo²¹
Native to	China
Region	Changsha, Hunan province
Native speakers	6 million (date missing)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Chinese Xiang New Xiang (Chang-Yi) Changsha dialect
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist list	`hsn-cha`
Glottolog	None
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Changsha dialect (simplified Chinese: 长沙话; traditional Chinese: 長沙話; pinyin: Chángshā-huà; Xiang: Tsã¹³ sɔ³³ ɣo²¹) is a dialect of New Xiang Chinese. It is spoken predominantly in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province. It is not mutually intelligible with Standard Mandarin, the official language of China.

Changsha dialect is what Chinese dialectologists would call a New Xiang variety, as opposed to Old Xiang; the distinction is mainly based on the presence of the Middle Chinese voiced plosives and affricates. The Old Xiang varieties, being more conservative, have in general kept them while the New Xiang ones have altogether lost them and changed them to voiceless unaspirated consonants. Although most Chinese dialectologists treat New Xiang as part of the group, Zhou Zhenhe and You Rujie classify it as Southwestern Mandarin.

Changsha dialect is spoken in the city of Changsha and its neighbouring suburbs. However, there are some slight differences between the urban and suburban speech. For instance, the retroflex set is only heard in the suburbs, but not in the city and some words have a different final in the two varieties.

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