Hui'an dialect


The Hui'an dialect, is a variety of Chinese mostly spoken in Hui'an in South Fujian Province, China. It belongs to the Hokkien subgroup of Southern Min.

Phonology

The Hui'an dialect has 14 phonemic initials and over 80 finals.

Consonants

The three voiced phonemes, and are realized as the nasal stops, and, respectively, before nasalized finals.
The phoneme may be treated as a plosive, i.e..
The alveolar phonemes, and are palatalized to, and, respectively, before.

Finals

Grammar

The demonstrative system has five pairs of pronouns with a two-way distinction:
ProximalDistalTranslation
这 / 這 tsit7 + numerative彼 hit7 + numerativethis/that; these/those; this/that kind of
这 / 這 tsat8彼 hat8this/that
这 / 這 tse2彼 hə2this/that kind of
遮 tsuai2徊 huai2these/those; this/that
种个 / 種個 tsiɔŋ3-2 e2响个 / 響個 hiɔŋ3-2 e2this/that kind of

Comparison with other varieties of Hokkien

Compared with the Quanzhou dialect, the greatest differences are present in the rimes: