• Source: Swatow dialect

The Swatow dialect, or in Mandarin the Shantou dialect, is a Chinese dialect mostly spoken in Shantou in Guangdong, China. It is a dialect of Chaoshan Min language. It is similar to and largely mutually intelligible with the Teochew dialect.




Phonology


Shantou dialect has 18 initials, 61 rimes and 8 tones.




= Initials

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= Rimes

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= Tones

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= Tone sandhi

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Shantou dialect has extremely extensive tone sandhi rules: in an utterance, only the last syllable pronounced is not affected by the rules. The two-syllable tonal sandhi rules are shown in the table below:




Notes






References



Office of Chorography of Shantou City 汕头市地方志办公室 (1999). Shan tou shi zhi 汕头市志 ["Chorography of Shantou City"]. Vol. 72. Beijing: Xinhua chubanshe 新华出版社 ["Xinhua Publishing House"]. ISBN 9787501143870.




Further reading


Fielde, Adele M. (1883). A pronouncing and defining dictionary of the Swatow dialect, arranged according to syllables and tones. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
Fielde, Adele M. (1878). First Lessons in the Swatow Dialect. Swatow: Swatow Printing Office Company. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
Lechler, Rudolf, Samuel Wells Williams , William Duffus (1883). English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Swatow. Swatow: English Presbyterian Mission Press. Retrieved 2015-04-01.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Hsiung-chʻêng, Lin (1886). A handbook of the Swatow vernacular. Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press. Retrieved 2015-04-01.




External links


Media related to Shantou dialect at Wikimedia Commons

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Orang Tiochiu
• Hudson Taylor
• Swatow dialect
• Peng'im
• Teochew Min
• Shantou
• Teochew Romanization
• Min Chinese
• Hokkien
• Hainanese
• Amoy dialect
• Manjiang dialect