Title: The Initial Features and Their Development of Changsha(长沙) Dialect in Modern Period
Abstract:Xungu Xieyin(训诂谐音)and Xiangyin Jianzi(湘音检字)are two local rhyme dictionaries which noted the Changsha(长沙)dialect from 19th to early 20th Centuries.By comparing these two books and integrating with Mode...Xungu Xieyin(训诂谐音)and Xiangyin Jianzi(湘音检字)are two local rhyme dictionaries which noted the Changsha(长沙)dialect from 19th to early 20th Centuries.By comparing these two books and integrating with Modern Xiang(湘)dialect,we found the Middle Chinese voiced stops,affricates of Rusheng(入声)rhyme in Cbangsha(长沙)dialect became voiceless aspirates at first,then some of them became non-aspirates;some phonetic changes,such as the palatalization of Zhi(知)Ⅱand Zhuang(庄)in Hekou(合口)rhymes,the mergers of Jianyin(尖音)and Tuanyin(团音)had taken place just about one hundred years ago.Read More
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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