Voice And Comparative Study Of Xitang Dialect In Yueyang County,Hunan Province

The paper has made a comprehensive and detailed description about the tone,the initials,the finals system of Xitang dialect,the homophonic unit fonn of Xitang dialect,the relationship of phonological elements.And has made a fLrther analysis about written and verbal pronunciation and phonological features of Xitang dialect.The main phonetic features of the Xitang dialect were found by longitudinal comparison,which was divided into Yin and Yang.Keep the entering tones;Ancient torbidi-voiced initial consonant were read as exhalation murmur;Ancient turbidi-voiced initial consonant were flowing together with the secondary qing;The Ni-mother and Lai-mother are mixed in front of the Hong Yin,Lai-mother were flowing together with Ding-mother in front of the XiYin;Only a set of Tongue tip consonant;The Xiao-mother were flowing together with the Xia-mother;The phenomenon of the existence of the xiao-group and the fei-group;Xi-mother were flowing together with the Qun-mother;Ying-mother were flowing together with the Yi-mother in front of the Hong Yin;The Guo finals is basically read in o rhyme;The Jia she,Xie she,Xian she,Shan she,Jiang she,Geng she has Literary and verbal pronunciation;the Yu she In the third class of the perturbed were pronunciated I rhyme;Dang she were flowing together with Jiang she;The puff is deficient;No Nasal rhyme;There is no Stop rhyme end.By horizontal contrast,the relationship between the dialect of yueyang county dialect,linxiang dialect and yueyang dialect was reduced in descending order.Xitang is in the boundary of xiang-gan dialect,the mixed characteristics of hunan and gan languages are obvious.However,there is more Jiangxi language color s and it is the most similar to the Linxiang dialect.We think Xitang dialect is a hunan language with the Jiangxi language color.