Fuqing dialect
| Fuqing dialect | |
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| 福清話 | |
| Hók-chiăng-uâ | |
| Native to | People's Republic of China |
| Region | Fuqing, Pingtan, some parts of Changle, Yongtai, and Fuzhou city proper |
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Native speakers
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At least 1 million (date missing) |
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Sino-Tibetan
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| Chinese characters and Foochow Romanized | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
Fuqing dialect (福清話, BUC： Hók-chiăng-uâ, IPA：[huʔ˥ tsʰiaŋ˥ ŋuɑ˦˨]), or Hokchia, is an Eastern Min dialect. It is spoken in the county-level city of Fuqing, situated within the prefecture-level city of Fuzhou. It is not completely mutually intelligible with Fuzhou dialect.
The Fuqing dialect has fifteen initials, forty-six rimes, and seven tones.
Including null initials, the Fuqing dialect has fifteen initials, excluding the phonemes [β] and [ʒ], which are used in spoken speech as mutations.
(The Chinese characters represent the sample characters taken from the Qī Lín Bāyīn (《戚林八音》, Foochow Romanized: Chék Lìng Báik-ĭng), while the Latin letters are from the orthography Foochow Romanized).
[θ] is a voiceless dental fricative, which some pronounce as [s].
[ts], [tsʰ] and [s] palatalize to [tɕ], [tɕʰ], [ɕ] before finals that begin with /y/, the close front rounded vowel ([y], [yo/yɔ], [yoŋ/yɔŋ], [yoʔ/yɔʔ]).
Including the syllabic nasal consonant [ŋ], the Fuqing dialect has forty-six rimes in total. Apart from [ŋ] and [iau], all rimes have a close/open distinction.
銀 (ṳk/e̤ṳk)
The rime before the slash is the close or tense rime (緊韻、窄韻), while after the slash is the open or lax rime (鬆韻、寬韻). The Chinese characters represent the sample characters taken from the Qī Lín Bāyīn (《戚林八音》, Foochow Romanized: Chék Lìng Báik-ĭng. Within the Qī Lín Bāyīn, the ru rimes are assigned under the corresponding yang rimes; hence, the sample characters for yang and ru rimes are the same. The Latin letters are from the orthography Foochow Romanized).
The rime [iau] only has one syllable [ŋiau] , and is not found in the Qī Lín Bāyīn; furthermore, Foochow Romanized does not have a way to represent this syllable.
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