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5 unusual facts about Minjiang dialect


Ba-Shu Chinese

The phonological aspects of Ba-Shu Chinese are still largely preserved in the Minjiang dialect of Sichuanese Mandarin.

Leshan dialect

The Sichuanese dialect of the city of Leshan is a variety of Minjiang, which 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.

Sichuanese Mandarin

In the "old" Minjiang dialect, the stop consonants for checked-tone syllables in Middle Chinese have developed into tense vowels to create a phonemical contrast, and in several cities and counties the tense vowels are followed by a glottal stop to emphasize the contrast.

Sichuanese Pinyin

However, there is also the problem that it is unable to exactly match the phonology of Sichuanese with complete precision, especially in the case for the Minjiang dialect, as there are many differences between Sichuanese and Standard Chinese in phonology.

Southwestern Mandarin

Guanchi 灌赤 (Minjiang dialect, southwest Sichuan and northern Yunnan): Minjiang 岷江, Renfu 仁富, Yamian 雅棉, and Lichuan 丽川 clusters



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