Leizhou Min
Leizhou Min is a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Leizhou city, Xuwen County, Mazhang District, most parts of Suixi County and also spoken inside of the linguistically diverse Xiashan District. In the classification of Yuan Jiahua, it was included in the Southern Min group, though it has low intelligibility with other Southern Min varieties. In the classification of Li Rong, used by the Language Atlas of China, it was treated as a separate Min subgroup. Hou Jingyi combined it with Hainanese in a Qiong–Lei group.Phonology
Leizhou Min has 17 initials, 47 rimes and 8 tones.Initials
The phoneme given here as is described by Li and Thompson instead as.Rimes
Tones
Leizhou has six tones, which are reduced to two in checked syllables.
| Tone number | Tone name | Tone contour | Description |
| 1 | yin ping | | rising |
| 2 | yin shang | | falling |
| 3 | yin qu | | bottom |
| 4 | yin ru | | high checked |
| 5 | yang ping | | low |
| 6 | yang shang | | mid |
| 7 | yang qu | | high |
| 8 | yang ru | | low checked |
