Dialect in Southern Zhangzhou

No name · Post by **No name** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:41 pm

Do people in Southern Zhangzhou such as Zhao'an, Yunxiao, Dongshan speak Chaozhou dialect with Zhangzhou dialect influence or vice versa?

Although these area are part of Zhangzhou City now, there are some connections with Chaozhou.
1. These areas were under the rule of Chaozhou before Zhangzhou was established,
2. Chaozhou opera is popular in these areas.

hong · Post by **hong** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:32 am

zhao an language is the closet to chaozhou because they have ir vowel.The other sects change their n ending into ng and t into k follow chaozhou.

No name · Post by **No name** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:13 pm

How should we classify their dialect? Chaozhou or Zhangzhou?

hong · Post by **hong** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:32 am

All these zhangzhou are still zhangzhou .They don't say me as ua like chaozhou,people as nang,etc.all zhangzhou sects except longhai has rising entering tone (yangru ) but chaozhou are short.