Wiktionary:About Chinese/Cantonese/Dongguan

Dongguan Cantonese (Chinese: 東莞話) is a language of the Yue branch of Chinese, currently called Category:Cantonese language on Wiktionary.

Its representative locality is Guancheng (莞城街道).

For the romanization, Jyutping++ is adopted as below. (The official Jyutping++ does not include Dongguan.)

Under the current analysis, Dongguan Cantonese has 19 initials, including the zero-initial.

Under the current analysis, Dongguan Cantonese has 40 finals, including the syllabic /m̩/.

Dongguan Cantonese has 9 tones, which are represented by as below. Note that there is no Tone 6.

Tones 0 and 2 are used grammatically to change the meaning of a word. Tone 0 cannot be found in a character intrinsically.

In the pronunciation section of each entry, under the {{zh-pron}} template, use the |c-dg= parameter to indicate the pronunciation of the entry in Jyutping++ as described above. Use commas , without spaces to separate alternate readings.

Use -0 or -2 to indicate a changed tone.

|c-dg=cak7 soeng5 be9 ngok8

|c-dg=zoi2-0

|c-dg=deng3-2

• 詹伯慧, 陳曉錦, editors (1997), 東莞方言詞典 (Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects), first edition, Nanjing: 江蘇教育出版社

• Category:Dongguan Cantonese
• Module:yue-pron/Dongguan