A Phonological Study On Hakka Dialect Of Zijin

Zijin is a Hakka area which is located in the southeast of Heyuan city of Guangdong province. There is no enough research about Hakka dialect of this area so far. This paper, which is based on Hakka dialect of Zijin, attempts to describe and analyze the phonetics aspect of Hakka materials investigated by ourselves. According to this, we also hope to reveal the diachronic evolution and synchronic variation of Hakka dialect in Zijin, and figure out how to evolve like that.This paper is divided into five parts.Chapter 1 is introduction. It mainly introduces the relative overview of Zijin, which includes the history, geography, population, and also describe the research situation of Hakka dialect in Zijin, methods of research, aim, significance, and the source of materials used in this paper.Chapter 2 summarizes the phonetics system of Hakka dialect in the four area, also concludes its features, and sorts out the word table according to the coordinate rule of consonants, vowels and tone.Chapter 3 is a comparative study of Hakka dialect phonetic system, which includes consonants system, vowels system and tone system.Chapter 4 is the homophony syllabary of four area of investigation.Chapter 5 is the conclusion of this paper.