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hsnXiang Chinese  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Xiāng (Hsiang, ), also known as Hunanese , is a Chinese language spoken mainly in Hunan province, but also in Sichuan and Guangxi provinces. Scholars divide it into Old Xiāng and New Xiāng. Old Xiāng dialects are of immense interest to Chinese dialectologists and historical phonologists because they, along with dialects of Wu Chinese, still exhibit the three-way distinction of Middle Chinese obstruents, preserving the voiced stops, fricatives and affricates. However, Xiāng has been heavily influenced by Mandarin, which adjoins three of the four sides of the Xiāng speaking territory. New Xiāng, which has lost the voiced obstruents, is to a certain extent intelligible to speakers of Southwestern Mandarin.

Entry terms

  • Chinese, Xiang

ISO 639-3 code

  • hsn

Notation

  • hsn

In other languages

  • Xiang

    French

  • Xiang

    German

  • Lingua xiang

    Italian

  • Chino xiang

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/hsn

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