Leshan dialect

The Leshan dialect (simplified Chinese: 乐山话; traditional Chinese: 樂山話; pinyin: Lèshānhuà; Sichuanese Standard Chinese: No2san1hua4; local pronunciation: [nʊʔ3sã55xuɑ224]) is the Sichuanese dialect of the city of Leshan and is a variety of Minjiang. It preserves old southern (Ba-Shu) features lost in other Sichuanese dialects and is very different from the dialects of most other cities in the province of Sichuan, which are more typically Mandarin.

Leshan
乐山话
Native toChina
RegionShizhong District, Leshan Wutongqiao District Shawan District Qianwei County Muchuan County
Native speakers
(undated figure of 770,000)
Early form
Ba-Shu Chinese (Disputed)
Old Mandarin (Disputed)
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
ISO 639-6mjic
GlottologNone

Phonology

There are a total of 20 initials in the Leshan dialect.[1]

BilabialLabiodentalCoronalAlveolarAlveolo-palatalVelar
Plosive plain /p/
贝		 /t/
得		 /k/
古
aspirated /pʰ/
配		 /tʰ/
套		 /kʰ/
可
Affricate plain /ts/
早		 /tɕ/
价
aspirated /tsʰ/
草		 /tɕʰ/
巧
Nasal /m/
没		 /n/
路		 /ŋ/
我
Fricative voiceless /f/
发		 /s/
速		 /ɕ/
小		 /x/
好
voiced /v/
五		 /z/
认
Zero ∅
衣


References
  1. Lai, Xiangang 赖先刚 (2000). Lèshān fāngyán 乐山方言 (in Chinese). Chengdu: Bashu shushe. ISBN 7-80523-668-2.


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