Huizhou Chinese

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  • Sino - Tibetan languages Sinitic languages Hui

Zh (Chinese Language )

CZH, zho ( macro language, Chinese languages)

Hui (Chinese徽, Hui Pinyin ), Huiyu (Chinese徽 语/徽 语, Pinyin Huīyǔ ) or Huizhouhua (Chinese徽州 话/徽州 话, pinyin Huīzhōuhuà ) is one of the Chinese languages. The exact assignment to a subfamily of Sinitic languages ​​is controversial. Some classify Hui a dialect of Wu, others assign it to the Gan while it is sometimes seen as an independent branch of Sinitic languages.

Hui is spoken in comparison to other Chinese dialects in a relatively small geographical area: In the vicinity of a former county of Anhui province called Huizhou (徽州 府), after which it is named, as well as in some other areas in southern Anhui and some areas in neighboring provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi. Despite a relatively small number of speakers, can be found in Hui numerous variants. Almost every county in which Hui is spoken, has its own dialect, which is for someone who lives only a few places far away, difficult to understand. For this reason, most speakers of the Hui are bilingual or multilingual today.

As with many other varieties of Chinese languages ​​, is also in the case of Hui disputed whether it is a separate language or a dialect.

Dialects

Hui can in turn be divided into five dialects:

  • Jixi Shexian (绩溪-歙县) spoken in the former district of Huizhou (徽州 府), the circles Jixi (绩溪 县), She (歙县), Jingde (旌德 县) and the city Ningguo (宁国市), in of Anhui province and district Chun'an (淳安 县) in Zhejiang Province;
  • Xiuning - Yixian (休宁-黟 县), spoken in the districts of Tunxi (屯溪 区) and Huangshan (黄山 区), the circles Xiuning (休宁县), Yi (黟 县) and Qimen (祁门 县) in the Anhui province and district Wuyuan (婺源县) in Jiangxi Province;
  • Qimen - Dexing (祁门-德兴), spoken in the circles Qimen (祁门 县) and Dongzhi (东至 县) in Anhui Province and Fuliang (浮梁 县), Dexing (德兴 县) and Wuyuan (婺 源 县) in Jiangxi Province;
  • Yanzhou (严 州), spoken in the circles Chun'an (淳安 县) and Jiande (建德 市), Zhejiang Province;
  • Jingde - Zhanda (旌德-占 大), spoken in the circles of Jingde (旌德 县), Qimen (祁门 县), Shitai (石台 县) and Yi (黟 县) as well as in the city Ningguo (宁国市) in Anhui Province.

Special

A phonological feature of the Hui is the massive elimination of final vowels ( -i,- u) and the increased use of nasals:

With many variants of the Hui diphthongs occur with a higher and longer spoken first vowel. For example, say in Xiuning话( "language" ) / u ː ɜ / ( / xuɑ / in Mandarin Chinese ) and园( " yard" ) / y ː ɛ / ( Mandarin Chinese: / yɛn / ); Yi called结" node " / tɕi aʔ ː / ( Mandarin Chinese: / tɕiɛ / ) and约" agreement " / i ː uʔ / ( Mandarin Chinese: / yɛ / ). In some areas this is very extreme operated. For example, in Likou in a circle Qimen饭" (boiled ) rice " is / fu ː mɛ / ( Mandarin Chinese: / fan / ), the stretched, nasalized / ũ ː / directly into the / m / merges.

Due to the nasalization the last vowel of a word are mostly gone. Hui also uses the / -n / a diminutive suffix. For example, say索"rope" in Tunxi / so ː n /

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