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Ganyu dialect

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Ganyu Dialect
赣榆方言
RegionLianyungang, China
Chinese characters
Language codes
ISO 639-3

The Ganyu dialect (simplified Chinese: 赣榆话; traditional Chinese: 赣榆話; pinyin: Gànyúhuà) is a dialect of Mandarin Chinese. It is spoken in Ganyu District and Donghai County, in Jiangsu province of China.[1]

According to the Language Atlas of China, the Ganyu dialect is a kind of Zhongyuan Mandarin,[1] but this is disputed.[citation needed] Some linguists regard it as one of Central Plains Mandarin like the Xuzhou dialect because of a similar evolution of the entering tone in ancient Chinese with Central Plains Mandarin.[citation needed] However, some linguists think of it as a kind of Jiaoliao Mandarin because of same initial consonant system.[citation needed] In fact, the Ganyu dialect shares more common vocabulary with Jiaoliao Mandarin.[citation needed] It is a little difficult for one whose mother tongue is Central Plains Mandarin to understand Ganyu Dialect.[citation needed]

While there are differences in how the Ganyu dialect is spoken, all forms of it are mutually intelligible.[1] The accent of someone from northwestern Ganyu sounds more like the one of someone who was born and grew up in the neighboring area of Shandong Province.[citation needed]

Linguistics have noted that the Ganyu dialect often weakens certain syllables and loses certain syllables all together in certain compound words and phrases.[1] A few common examples of the difference between Standard Mandarin and the Ganyu dialect are that or are pronounced "bei" instead of "bai".[citation needed] Another example is the use of the word , pronounced as "you" instead of "rou".[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Gu, Yiming. Tone Sandhi Resulted from Syllable Weakening and Syllable Loss in Ganyu Dialect (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-06-16. Retrieved 2021-06-15.