10 Facts About Fuqing dialect

Fuqing dialect, or Hokchia, is an Eastern Min dialect.

Fuqing dialect has fifteen initials, forty-six rimes, and seven tones.

Additionally, the Fuqing dialect contains the neutral tone in colloquial speech, which in tone sandhi produces a new tone contour, one that rises.

The phenomenon of tone sandhi in the Fuqing dialect contains a whole set of rules to be followed, but it is still rather complex: one tone can undergo different changes depending on what tone follows it.

Fuqing dialect is divided into several branches, based on their phonology:.

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Fuqing dialect has lost the voiced obstruents from Middle Chinese, has merged the final nasal consonants into one phoneme and similarly for the entering tone final stop consonant.

Fuqing dialect possesses just one tone derived from the historical rising tone of Middle Chinese, corresponding to the dark rising tone where those with historical voiceless initials have remained.

Fuqing dialect has a rich source of variation in its split between literary and colloquial readings, with initials, rimes and tones being affected.

Fuqing dialect has had a long history of migration, with which has come a large number of different sources of vocabulary, creating several layers or lexical strata.

One of the layers that the Fuqing dialect has is the Minyue language, which today remains as a source of colloquial vocabulary.