Wugang dialect

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Wugang dialect
Chinese: 武岡話
Native toChina
RegionWugang, Hunan province
Language codes
ISO 639-3
hsn-luo
GlottologNone
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The Wugang dialect (Wu Kang in Wade–Giles) is an Old Xiang Chinese dialect spoken in Wugang, Hunan in China.

Classification

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Wugang is an Old Xiang dialect,[1] related to other Old Xiang dialects such as Shaoyang dialect.[2][3]

Geographic distribution

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The Wugang dialect is spoken in Wugang, Hunan.

Sub-dialects

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The Wenping dialect is a sub-dialect of the Wugang dialect.[4]

Features

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Wugang words with the D tone are the only words in which devoicing can occur,[5] with voiced stop and fricative initials.[6][7]

The Wugang dialect is one of the dialects that uses "佢" or "其" as the pronoun for the third person.[8][9][10]

See also

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References

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