In the Yinan dialect, the system of initial consonants is more complicated, especially in the five group initial consonants: " ?????? ". Their classification is so unusual and rare in modern dialect....In the Yinan dialect, the system of initial consonants is more complicated, especially in the five group initial consonants: " ?????? ". Their classification is so unusual and rare in modern dialect. Therefore, the present paper focuses longitudinally on a discussion of the origin of the five group initial consonants in the Middle Ages, and traversally on a comparison of them with those in the General Chinese Language. That apart, several distribution maps of the five groups of initial consonants in Yinan dialect are illustrated.展开更多
文摘In the Yinan dialect, the system of initial consonants is more complicated, especially in the five group initial consonants: " ?????? ". Their classification is so unusual and rare in modern dialect. Therefore, the present paper focuses longitudinally on a discussion of the origin of the five group initial consonants in the Middle Ages, and traversally on a comparison of them with those in the General Chinese Language. That apart, several distribution maps of the five groups of initial consonants in Yinan dialect are illustrated.
