A Study Of The Evolutionary Hierarchy Of ZHI Group In Coastal Min Dialect

By analyzing the pronunciation of the characters in the coastal Min dialects,this paper strips its historical level,and we can draw a conclusion that the evolution path of Zhi group from ancient to the middle ancient times,and the late divergence.The first part(introduction): This part introduces the reason of the topic,the distribution of 22 dialect points and the source of corpus.The second part(the pronunciation situation and evolution level of Zhi group(止摄)in southern Min/Eastern Min dialect):It is the main body of the paper.Research situation about coastal Min dialects is based on historical analytic hierarchy process.In this paper,firstly we separate the level of writing or oral,and then divide them into several categories according to their phonological types,and search for the hierarchical sources by their phonological characteristics,phonological classification and combination relations.Last correspond relations between dialect spots.The southern Min dialect keeps a written level originating from the Tang-Song dynasty that the Jing-Zhuang Group(精庄组)as the condition of differentiation and the phenomenon of"Zhi-Wei into Yu(支微入鱼)".The spoken levels include four levels:the Qin-Han level(the same pronunciation of Zhi,Ge and Ma,the same pronunciation of Zhi and Wei,the same pronunciation of Zhi and You),the Yangtze River eastern level of Nan dynasty(the different pronunciation of Zhi and Zhi(支脂有别)),the mix with Zhi Zhi Zhi Wei(支脂之微相混).According,phonetic system was beginning to some situation:nasal vowels and nasal ending,the opposite situation that evolved out of the mouth opening and closing,and owing to language contact,pinched vowel and[(?)][(?)i][ie],non-vowels with initial consonant-ɡ,and so on.The Min eastern dialect is mostly the same as the Min southern dialect.The writing level originated from the Tang-Song dynasties,with the Jing-Zhuang group as the condition to differentiate and produce"Zhi-Wei into Yu(支微入鱼)",the orallevels include three levels:the Qin-Han level(Zhi Ge Ma with the same reading),Yangtze River eastern level of the Nan dynasty(difference with Zhi and Zhi,Zhi and Wei with the same reading),and Zhi Zhi Zhi Wei are mixed.In addition to the rhyme[ie]is a combined mouth reduplication.The spontaneous evolution of the phonetic system is reflected in the intertwined and complex relationship between the two groups of ZHI and XIE(止蟹摄),and the rhymes"Bei(杯韵)","Cui(催韵)"and"Hui(灰韵)"recorded in the rhyme book of Min eastern covering the middle and ancient ZHI and XIE respectively.They merged from Song to Qing dynasties and then redivided,with different expressions in different Min eastern dialects today.The third part(Historical sound change of the Zhi group Character):By classifying the sound reading of the Zhi group character in coastal Min dialect and making hierarchical division and summary,we can systematically know a certain sound change path of the Zhi group character in the history:the Ge rhymes(歌部)was read as low vowel,and then combination with the Zhi rhymes(支部)after falling off the tail,and the overall evolution shows a high trend.The Zhi rhyme(脂韵)was hardly changed from ancient times to the middle ancient times which always maintained the high vowel reading method,and the evolution of the rhyme was the central vowel forward and high direction.In Wei-Jin dynasties,the evolution of the three rhymes of Zhi appeared regional differences.In the southern region,the rhymes of Zhi Zhi(脂之)first merged and may be further broken into diphthongs.In the northern region,the rhymes of Zhi Zhi(支脂)first merged.From ancient times to the middle ages,Wei rhyme might be a vowel structure with extended lip vowel+-i tail.Finally,the main vowel weakened and the vowel character of the vowel tail strengthened.In the middle ages,the Wei rhyme combined with the three rhymes of rami.In the late Middle Ages,the characters began to differentiate again under the condition of Jing-Zhuang group,and in southern Min dialect,the evolution direction of nasalization emerged.However,from the contact between the common language and the surrounding language,we can know that another development of Zhi group is that after the differentiation of Jing-Zhuang Group,tongue tip vowels gradually emerged,and then into the modern Chinese period.The sequence of initial group evolution is Jing-Zhuang group(精庄组)(late Tang-Song Dynasties)>Zhang Group(章组)>Zhi Group(知组).