广东电白旧时正话

Oldtime Zhenghua(official speech) in Dianbai County, Guangdong Province

“旧时正话”是明朝建于电白县的军事城池“神电卫”中讲的一种方言,是当时的官话和教学语言。其来源及隶属未明。现散存于部分村落。本文分四部分:壹、电白县及电白方言。贰、旧时正话及其声韵调。叁、旧时正话的语音特点。肆、旧时正话的词汇语法特点。

Oldtime Zhenghua (official speech) was a dialect used in Shendianwei, a military fort built in Dianbai county in Ming Dynasty. Used only in few villages today, this dialect was the local official speech as well as the teaching language whose origin and attribution remain unknown. This article is broken down into 4 parts, respectively 1) Dianbai county and its dialect; 2) Phonology; 3) Phonological features; 4) Lexical and syntactic features.