Jianyang (Kienyang) (Northern Min: / ) is a dialect of Northern Min Chinese spoken in Jianyang in the north of Fujian province.
Phonology Jianyang dialect has 18 initials, 34 rimes and 8 tones.
Initials StopsNasalsFricativesApprox.
Fricative and affricate sounds /, , , / are realized as more palatal as [, , , ], when preceding front vowels. // can be realized as an approximant [] within different segments.
Rimes
Tones + No.12345678Tone namedark level陰平light level A陽平甲light level B陽平乙rising上聲dark departing陰去light departing陽去dark entering陰入light entering陽入Tone contour (53) (334) (41) (21) (332) (43) (214) (4) The entering tones in Jianyang dialect don't have any entering tone coda () such as , , and . It's quite different from many other Chinese dialects.
Notes
References
Chen, Matthew (2000). Tone Sandhi: Patterns across Chinese Dialects. CUP. Norman, Jerry (1969). "The Kienyang Dialect of Fukien". Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.