Wiktionary:About Chinese/Cantonese/Yangjiang

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Yangjiang Yue (Chinese: 陽江話) is a language of the Yue branch of Chinese, currently called Category:Cantonese language on Wiktionary.

Its representative locality is Jiangcheng (江城區).

Romanization

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

Initials

Under the current analysis, Yangjiang Yue has 21 initials, including the zero-initial. Note that in , the gw- and kw- initials are merged into g- and k- respectively.

Jyutping++ IPA Examples
b /p/
p /pʰ/
m /m/
f /f/
d /t/
t /tʰ/
n /n/
sl /ɬ/
l /l/
z /t͡ʃ/
c /t͡ʃʰ/
s /ʃ/
g /k/
k /kʰ/
ng /ŋ/
h /h/
gw /kʷ/
kw /kʰʷ/
j /j/
w /w/

Finals

Under the current analysis, Yangjiang Yue has 47 finals. It has no syllabic finals ( is /ʊŋ/).

-i -u -m -n -ng -p -t -k
aa aa
/a/
aai
/ai/
aau
/au/
aam
/am/
aan
/an/
aang
/aŋ/
aap
/ap̚/
aat
/at̚/
aak
/ak̚/
a ai
/ɐi/
au
/ɐu/
am
/ɐm/
an
/ɐn/
ang
/ɐŋ/
ap
/ɐp̚/
at
/ɐt̚/
ak
/ɐk̚/
e e
/ɛ/
ei
/ei/
ie ieu
/iɛu/
iem
/iɛm/
ien
/iɛn/
ieng
/iɛŋ/
iep
/iɛp̚/
iet
/iɛt̚/
iek
/iɛk̚/
o o
/ɔ/
oi
/ɔi/
ou
/ou/
on
/ɔn/
ong
/ɔŋ/
ot
/ɔt̚/
ok
/ɔk̚/
i i
/i/
iu
/iu/
im
/im/
in
/in/
ing
/ɪŋ/
ip
/ip̚/
it
/it̚/
ik
/ɪk̚/
u u
/u/
ui
/ui/
un
/un/
ung
/ʊŋ/
ut
/ut̚/
uk
/ʊk̚/

Tones

Yangjiang Yue has 5 phonemic tones (10 traditional tone categories), which are represented by 5 symbols. Note that there is no tone 5.

Jyutping++ Tone numerals Traditional category Examples
1 33 dark level (陰平)
𠼭
2 21 rising (上)
lower dark entering (下陰入)
3 24 dark departing (陰去)
upper dark entering (上陰入)
4 443 43 42 43 light level (陽平)
lower light entering (下陽入)
6 454 54 55 54 light departing (陽去)
upper light entering (上陽入)

Checked tone 4 (lower light entering) is rare, and checked tone 1 only has one character, which is onomatopoeic.

Input format

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

|c-yj=ci3,si3


|c-yj=bin2 si3


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 汉语方言词汇 (in Chinese), 1st edition, 文字改革出版社, 1964
  2. 2.0 2.1 汉语方言词汇 (in Chinese), 2nd edition, 语文出版社, 1995
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 冼文婷 (2016) 广东阳江话研究 (in Chinese), Guangxi University
  4. 4.0 4.1 黄伯荣 (2018) 广东阳江方言研究 (in Chinese), Sun Yat-Sen University Press

See also