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词条 Suzhou dialect
释义

  1. Distribution

  2. History

  3. Plural pronouns

  4. Varieties

  5. Phonology

     Initials  Finals  Tones 

  6. Romanization

  7. See also

  8. References

  9. External links

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The Suzhou dialect ({{zh|t=蘇州話|s=苏州话|p=Sūzhōu huà}}; Suzhounese: Sou-tsøʏ ghé-ghô {{lang|zh|蘇州閒話}}), also known as Suzhounese, is the variety of Chinese traditionally spoken in the city of Suzhou in Jiangsu Province, China. Suzhounese is a variety of Wu Chinese, and was traditionally considered the Wu Chinese prestige dialect. Suzhounese has a large vowel inventory and it is relatively conservative in initials by preserving voiced consonants from Middle Chinese.

Distribution

Suzhou dialect is spoken within the city itself and the surrounding area, including migrants living in nearby Shanghai. There is also an increasing number of Suzhounese speakers in New York City in the United States, particularly in the Manhattan Chinatown.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}

The Suzhou dialect is mutually intelligible with dialects spoken in its satellite cities such as Kunshan, Changshu, and Zhangjiagang, as well as those spoken in its former satellites Wuxi and Shanghai. It is also partially intelligible with dialects spoken in other areas of the Wu cultural sphere such as Hangzhou and Ningbo. However, it is not mutually intelligible with Cantonese or Standard Chinese; but, as all public schools and most broadcast communication in Suzhou use Mandarin exclusively, nearly all speakers of the dialect are at least bilingual. Owing to migration within China, many residents of the city cannot speak the local dialect but can usually understand it after a few months or years in the area.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}

History

A "ballad–narrative" (說唱詞話) known as "The story of Xue Rengui crossing the sea and Pacifying Liao" (薛仁貴跨海征遼故事), which is about the Tang dynasty hero Xue Rengui[1] is believed to have been written in the Suzhou dialect.[2]

Plural pronouns

Second- and third-person pronouns are suffixed with {{IPA|[toʔ]}} for the plural. The first-person plural is a separate root, {{IPA|[ni]}}.[3]

Varieties

Some non native speakers of Suzhou dialect speak Suzhou dialect in a "stylized variety" to tell tales.[4]

Phonology

Initials

Initials of the Suzhou dialect
  Labial Dental/Alveolar Alveolo-palatal Velar Glottal
Nasalm}}n}}ɲ}}ŋ}}
Plosive tenuisp}}t}}k}}
aspiratedpʰ}}tʰ}}kʰ}}
voicedb}}d}}ɡ}}
Affricatetenuists}}tɕ}}
aspiratedtsʰ}}tɕʰ}}
voiceddʑ}}
Fricativevoicelessf}}s}}ɕ}}h}}
voicedv}}z}}ɦ}}
Laterall}}

The Suzhou dialect has series of voiced, voiceless, and aspirated stops, and voiceless and voiced fricatives. Moreover, palatalized initials also occur.

Finals

Vowel nuclei of the Suzhou dialect
FrontCentralBack
UnroundedRounded
Close/i, ɪ/}}/y, ʏ/}}/ɵ/}}/ʊ/}}
Mid/ɛ/}}/ə/}}/o/}}
Open/æ/}}/a/}}/ɑ/}}
Diphthong{{IPA|/œʏ, ɔʊ/}}
Finals of the Suzhou dialect[5]
CodaOpenNasalGlottal stop
Medial∅jw∅jw∅jwɥ
Nucleusii}}         
yy}}         
ɪɪ}}  ɪɲ}}      
ʏʏ}}  ʏɲ}}      
ɵɵ}}jɵ}}wɵ}}       
ʊʊ}}         
ɛɛ}} wɛ}}       
ə   ən}} wən}}əʔ}}jəʔ}}wəʔ}}ɥəʔ}}
o   oŋ}}joŋ}} oʔ}}joʔ}}  
œʏœʏ}}         
ɔʊɔʊ}}         
ææ}}jæ}}        
a   ã}}jã}}wã}}aʔ}}jaʔ}}waʔ}} 
ɑɑ}}jɑ}}wɑ}}ɑ̃}}jɑ̃}}wɑ̃}}ɑʔ}}jɑʔ}}  
Syllabic continuants: {{IPA|[z̩]}} {{IPA|[z̩ʷ]}} {{IPA|[β̩~v̩]}} {{IPA|[m̩]}} {{IPA|[ŋ̩]}} {{IPA|[l̩]}}

The Suzhou dialect has a rare contrast between "fricative vowels" {{IPA|[i, y]}} and ordinary vowels {{IPA|[ɪ, ʏ]}}. As with Shanghainese, the Middle Chinese entering tone characters, which ended in {{IPA|[p t k]}}, now end in a glottal stop {{IPA|[ʔ]}} in Suzhou, while Middle Chinese nasal endings {{IPA|[m n ŋ]}} have become a nasalized vowel or {{IPA|[n ŋ]}}.

Tones

Suzhou is considered to have seven tones. However, since the tone split dating from Middle Chinese still depends on the voicing of the initial consonant, these constitute just three phonemic tones: ping, shang, and qu. (Ru syllables are phonemically toneless.)

Tone chart of Suzhou dialect
Tone number Tone name Tone letters Description
1 yin ping (陰平)˦}} (44)high
2 yang ping (陽平)˨˨˦}} (224)level-rising
3 shang (上)˥˨}} (52)high falling
4 yin qu (陰去)˦˩˨}} (412)dipping
5 yang qu (陽去)˨˧˩}} (231)rising-falling
6 yin ru (陰入)˦ʔ}} (4)high checked
7 yang ru (陽入)˨˧ʔ}} (23)rising checked

In Suzhou, the Middle Chinese Shang tone has partially merged with the modern yin qu tone.

Romanization

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See also

  • List of Chinese dialects
  • Hangzhou dialect
  • Changzhou dialect
{{commons category|Suzhou dialect}}

References

1. ^{{cite book|volume=Volume 153 of CNWS publications|year=2007|author1=Boudewijn Walraven |author2=Remco E. Breuker |editor=Remco E. Breuker|publisher=CNWS Publications|edition=illustrated|isbn=9057891530|quote=A prosimetrical rendition, entitled Xue Rengui kuahai zheng Liao gushi 薛仁貴跨海征遼故事 (The story of Xue Rengui crossing the sea and Pacifying Liao), which shares its opening prose paragraph with the Xue Rengui zheng Liao shilüe, is preserved in a printing of 1471; it is one of the shuochang cihua 說唱詞話 (ballad-narratives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yCDZtFu_1UIC&pg=PA341#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=Korea in the middle: Korean studies and area studies : essays in honour of Boudewijn Walraven|page=341|pages=|accessdate=2012-03-10}}
2. ^{{cite book|volume=Volume 153 of CNWS publications|year=2007|author1=Boudewijn Walraven |author2=Remco E. Breuker |editor=Remco E. Breuker|publisher=CNWS Publications|edition=illustrated|isbn=9057891530|quote=for telling and singing) which were discovered in the suburbs of Shanghai in 1967. While these shuochang cihua had been printed in modern-day Beijing, their language suggests that they had been composed in the Wu Chinese area of Suzhou and surroundings,|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yCDZtFu_1UIC&pg=PA342&dq=|title=Korea in the middle: Korean studies and area studies : essays in honour of Boudewijn Walraven|page=342|pages=|accessdate=2012-03-10}}
3. ^{{cite book|author1=Graham Thurgood |author2=Randy J. LaPolla |editor=Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla|edition=illustrated|publisher=Psychology Press|year=2003|location=|page=86|pages=|isbn=0700711295|title=The Sino-Tibetan languages|volume=Volume 3 of Routledge language family series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5MeWSTQ7F44C&pg=PA86#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=2012-03-10}}
4. ^{{cite book|volume=|year=2000|author1=George Melville Bolling |author2=Linguistic Society of America |author3=Bernard Bloch |author4=Project Muse |publisher=Linguistic Society of America|edition=|location=|isbn=|quote=She also examines a stylized variety of Suzhou Wu as used to tell stories by native speakers of another dialect.|url=https://books.google.com/books?ei=d_FcT9DGKeHy0gHGr73RBg&id=oyQXAQAAMAAJ&dq=|title=Language, Volume 76, Issues 1-2|page=160|pages=|date=|accessdate=2012-03-10 }}(Original from the University of Michigan)(Digitized Dec 17, 2010)
5. ^{{cite thesis |last=Ling |first=Feng |date=2009 |title=A phonetic study of the vowel system in Suzhou Chinese |type= |chapter= |publisher=City University of Hong Kong |docket= |oclc= |url=https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/theses/a-phonetic-study-of-the-vowel-system-in-suzhou-chinese(52b089ed-b109-4b7f-968d-5e9a96e6f9b1).html |access-date=}}

External links

  • Wu Association
  • Soochow(Suzhou) Dialect
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