Quzhou dialect

The Quzhou dialect (衢州話; pronounced Template:Category handlerTemplate:Category handler in the Quzhou dialect) is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in Quzhou, China.

Phonology

Initials

		Labial	Dental	Palatal	Postalveolar	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		Template:IPAlink 迷	Template:IPAlink 拿	Template:IPAlink 寧		Template:IPAlink 咬
Plosive	tenuis	Template:IPAlink 巴	Template:IPAlink 丁			Template:IPAlink 公	Template:IPAlink 愛
	aspirated	Template:IPAlink 怕	Template:IPAlink 聽			Template:IPAlink 空
	slack voice	Template:IPAlink 爬	Template:IPAlink 停			Template:IPAlink 共
Affricate	tenuis		Template:IPAlink 增	Template:IPAlink 九	Template:IPAlink 真
	aspirated		Template:IPAlink 寸	Template:IPAlink 秋	Template:IPAlink 春
	slack voice		Template:IPAlink 存	Template:IPAlink 求	Template:IPAlink 陳
Fricative	tenuis	Template:IPAlink 方	Template:IPAlink 森	Template:IPAlink 心	Template:IPAlink 雙	Template:IPAlink 好
	slack voice	Template:IPAlink 房	Template:IPAlink 時	Template:IPAlink 尋	Template:IPAlink 床	Template:IPAlink 或
Approximant			Template:IPAlink 來	(Template:IPAlink) 移		(Template:IPAlink) 吳	Template:IPAlink 或

Finals

Medial	Nucleus
		ɑ	e̞	ɘɪ	ɔ	ɤ	ə	æ	ən	ã	ɒ̃	oŋ	əʔ	ənʔ	ɐ̞ʔ	liquid
	試 Template:IPAblink	家 Template:IPAblink	菜 Template:IPAblink	走	包 Template:IPAblink	勾 Template:IPAblink	南 Template:IPAblink	三 Template:IPAblink	本	打 Template:IPAblink	方 Template:IPAblink	公	六	脱	白	爾 Template:IPAblink
	去 Template:IPAblink	謝	變		表	九			金	兩	旺	窘	业		弱	姆 Template:IPAblink
	布 Template:IPAblink	瓜	快	會			官	慣	昏	昌	光		國		划	魚 Template:IPAblink
	雨 Template:IPAblink						捐		運				肉			水衢 Template:IPAblink

Tones

The Quzhou dialect is considered to have seven tones. However, since the tone split from Middle Chinese, characters still depend on the voicing of the initial consonant. These constitute just three phonemic tones: ping, shang, and qu. (Ru syllables are phonemically toneless.)

Tone chart of Quzhou dialect

Number	Tone name	Tone contour	Examples
1	陰平 yīn píng	Template:IPAblink (44)	江天飛空
2	陽平 yáng píng	Template:IPAblink (112)	來同魚頭
3	陰上 yīn shàng	Template:IPAblink (34)	懂紙古口
4	陽去 yáng qù	Template:IPAblink (31)	外地路道
5	陰去 yīn qù	Template:IPAblink (52)	對去馬你
6	陰入 yīn rù	Template:IPAblink (12)	六肉白石
7	陽入 yáng rù	Template:IPAblink (5)	各黑出脫

Grammar

Sentence structure

The first example can be compared with Japanese: あなたは私の友達だよ。(anata wa watashi no tomodachi dayo.) Here, 啘 resembles Japanese だよ (dayo).

Lexicon

Pronouns

• 我 1st person singular
• 你 2nd person singular
• 渠[ 3rd person singular
• 我達 , 我拉 (我耷) 1st person plural
• 你達 , 你拉 , 爾耷- 2nd person plural
• 渠達 , 渠拉 (渠耷) 3rd person plural

References

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