Lower Yangtze Mandarin

Lower Yangtze Mandarin
Xiajiang Guanhua
Region Huai and Yangzi Rivers (Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei, Jiangxi, Henan)
Native speakers
 ca. 70 million (2011)
Sino-Tibetan
Written vernacular Chinese
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
ISO 639-6 juai
Glottolog jing1262[1]

Areas where Jianghuai is spoken

Lower Yangtze Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 下江官话; traditional Chinese: 下江官話; pinyin: xiàjiāng guānhuà) is one of the most divergent groups of Mandarin dialects, as it neighbors the Wu, Hui, and Gan groups of Chinese varieties. It is also known as Jiang–Huai Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 江淮官话; traditional Chinese: 江淮官話; pinyin: jiānghuái guānhuà), after the Yangtze (Jiang) and Huai Rivers. Lower Yangtze dialects are distinguished from most other Mandarin varieties by their retention of a final glottal stop in words that ended in a final stop in Middle Chinese.

Features and location

Sixty-seven million people speak Jianghuai Mandarin. Some features of Jianghuai Mandarin include retention of Middle Chinese syllable-final stops.[2]

The Portuguese Chinese Dictionary (PCD) written by missionaries during the Ming dynasty categorized several Jianghuai dialects with rounded finals. The eastern and southeastern variants of Jianghuai contain these rounded finals, Nanjing dialect, on the other hand, is located in another group.[3]

Lower Yangtze Mandarin is spoken in parts of Anhui and Hubei provinces north of the Yangtze, as well as some areas of Jiangsu[4][5] north of the river,[6] most notably in the former capital of Nanjing, as well as Jiujiang in Jiangxi province. It is one of the few Mandarin dialects to retain the entering tone (ru sheng 入聲) of Middle Chinese (as a final glottal stop) like Jin Chinese,[7] and for this retention of the entering tone Jianghuai is compared to its non-Mandarin neighbors to the south. The retension of the entering tone is considered a unique feature of Jianghuai which sets it apart from other the other Mandarin dialects.[8] It has largely lost initial n, replacing it with l.

Some Jianghuai dialects have five tones due to the preservation of the rù tone of Middle Chinese, more than four toned Standard Mandarin which lost the rù tone.[9]

In Jianghuai, verbs which meant "to share, to gather, to mix, to accompany" gave rise to disposal markers which mean "and, with" similar to 跟 gen.[10]

Jiangsu province contains the border in which Jianghuai and Northern Mandarin are split.[11]

Jianghuai Mandarin shares some characteristics with Ming dynasty Southern Mandarin.[12]

Peking opera got its start in parts of Anhui and Hubei which spoke this dialect.

Literary and colloquial readings

The existence of literary and colloquial readings (文白异读), is a notable feature in Jianghuai Mandarin.

ExampleColloquial readingLiterary readingMeaningStandard Mandarin pronunciation
斜tɕiatɕiɪobliqueɕiɛ
摘tiɪʔtsəʔpicktʂai
去kʰɪtɕʰygotɕʰy
锯katɕycuttɕy
下xaɕiadownɕia
横xoŋxənacrossxəŋ
严æ̃iɪ̃strictian
挂kʰuɛkuahangkua
蹲səntəncrouchtuən
虹kaŋxoŋrainbowxoŋ

Relations to other dialects

A linguist named Cheng evaluated the extent of relationship between dialects by using Pearson's correlation coefficients. The result was that Eastern dialects of Jianghuai "cluster", with the Xiang and Gan dialects when using a 35 world list, while Northern and Southern Mandarin were nowhere in the cluster with Eastern Jianghuai, while Northern and Southern were supposedly "genetic" relatives of Jianghuai Mandarin.[13]

Jianghuai originally included the Huizhou dialect, but it is currently classified separately from Jianghuai.[14]

Jianghuai Mandarin shares an "old literary layer" as a stratum with southern varieties like Southern Min, Hakka, Gan, and Hangzhou dialects, which it does not share with Northern Mandarin. Sino-Vietnamese also shares some of these characteristics. The stratum in Minnan specifically consist of Zeng group and Geng group's "n" and "t" finals when an "i" initial is present.[15][16]

A professor of Chinese at Rutgers University, Richard Vanness Simmons, claims that the Hangzhou dialect, rather than being Wu as it was classified by Yuen Ren Chao, is a Mandarin dialect closely related to Jianghuai Mandarin. The Hangzhou dialect is still classified under Wu. Chao had developed a "Common Wu Syllabary" for the Wu dialects. Simmons claimed that, had Chao compared the Hangzhou dialect to the Wu syllabary and Jianghuai Mandarin, he would have found more similarities to Jianghuai.[17]

Some works of literature produced in Yangzhou, such as Qingfengzha, a novel, contain Jianghuai Mandarin. People in Yangzhou identified by the dialect they speak, locals spoke the dialect, as opposed to sojourners, who spoke Huizhou or Wu dialects. This led to the formation of identity based on dialect. Large amounts of merchants from Huizhou lived in Yangzhou and effectively were responsible for keeping the town afloat.[18]

67 million people speak Jianghuai Mandarin. Some features of Jianghua Mandarin include retention of Middle Chinese syllable final stops. Like Wu, the glottal stop has superseded the original Middle Chinese p, t, k, and three-way place contrast has also gone extinct.[19]

Some Chinese linguists like Ting have claimed that Jianghuai is mostly Wu containing a superstratum of Mandarin.[20]

The linguist Dan Xu suggested that Jianghuai Mandarin is an intermediary with Standard Mandarin and Wu regarding the occurrence of postpositions in Chinese.[21]

The Chinese Academy of Social Science was behind the separation of the Hui dialects from the Jianghuai Mandarin dialects in 1987.[22]

Hefei, and other Jianghuai Mandarin dialects, along with Taiyuan and other Jin dialects has gone through the process of a glottal stop replacing consonant endings.[23] While most Mandarin dialects and the Wenzhou dialect have completely dropped Middle Chinese stop endings such as p, t, k, Jianghuai Mandarin, Jin, and Wu dialect converted them into a glottal stop.[24] Having a single entering tone with a glottal stop is shared by Jin, Mandarin, and Wu.[25]

Vocalic distinctions are more common in Jianghuai Mandarin than the Jin Chinese.[26][27]

The linguist Matthew Y. Chen noted that since the CVq syllables which are related to Middle Chinese ton IV are preserved in Jianghuai Mandarin that splitting Jin Chines from Mandarin on the basis that Middle Chinese tone IV was preserved in Jin made no sense. He did note that there was a separate reason to split Jin from Northern Mandarin, since it has a unique tone sandhi.[28]

When Jianghuai Mandarin and Wu were compared to dialects from China's southeastern coast, it was concluded "that chain-type shifts in Chinese follow the same general rules as have been revealed by Labov for American and British English dialects."[29]

Comparison to other Mandarin dialects


Jianghuai (eastern) Mandarin and Northern Mandarin do not share many words; frequently many Jianghuai Mandarin words have no Northern Mandarin cognates, besides cognates that do exist between the two Mandarins have multiple forms.[30]

The Rugaohua dialect of Jianghuai does not follow the T3 sandhi rule which most other Mandarin dialects follow, with T3 being absent from it. Linguists speculate that the Beijing dialect also eliminated T3 sandhi, but it was resurrected for modern Standard Mandarin (Putonghua).[31][32]

Nanjing Jianghuai Mandarin has preserved the glottal stop as a final and separates the entering tone unlike the Northern Mandarin or Southwestern Mandarin. Like Northern Mandarin, it keeps the retroflex initials.[33] In Jianghuai Mandarin, the n sound does not exist, being pronounced as L; the opposite occurred in Southwestern Mandarin, where now only the n sound is present while L merged into it. Northern Mandarin on the other hand, keeps both n and L separate. Jianghuai, like Northern Mandarin, also separates the F and X sound in "xu", while in Southwestern Mandarin, X merged into f so that it is pronounced as "fu". In Jianghuai, əŋ has "merged" into iŋ, while the opposite has occurred in Southwestern Mandarin, Northern Mandarin keeps both as separate sounds.[34]

The two finals, [ŋ] and [n] are the only ones that exist in dialects of Mandarin. The final stops merged into a glottal stop in Jianghuai Mandarin, while in the majority of southwestern Mandarin they are completely eliminated, Northern and Northwest Mandarin dialects have undergone both changes. Nanjing Mandarin is an exception to the normal occurrence of the [i], [y] and [u] medials in Mandarin, along with is eastern Shanxi and some Southwest Mandarin dialects.[35]

Verbs meaning giving function as a passive agent marker or a disposal construction direct object marker in the Zhongyuan, Jianghuai, and southwestern Mandarin. This is also shared by the grammatization of gei (给) in Standard Mandarin, since all four are Mandarin dialects.[36]

When Chinese people were subjected to listening to various dialects such as a Northern Mandarin dialect (Yantai dialect), Standard Mandarin (Putonghua), and a Jianghuai Mandarin dialect (Rugao dialect of Jiangsu), "cross dialectal" differences appeared in their reactions.[37]

Prominence

Jianghuai Mandarin was possibly the native tone of the founding Emperor of the Ming dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang and many of his military and civil officials.[38]

The "Guanhua koine" of the early Ming era was based on Jianghuai Guanhua (Jianghuai Mandarin). Western missionaries and Korean Hangul writings of the Ming Guanhua and Nanjing dialect showed differences, which pointed to the Guanhua being a koiné and mixture of various dialects strongly based on Jianghuai.[39]

In Matteo Ricci's "Dicionário Português-Chinês", words in this dictionary documenteed the Ming dynasty Mandarin. A number of words appeared to be derived from Jianghuai Mandarin dialect, such as "pear, jujube, shirt, ax, hoe, joyful, to speak, to bargain, to know, to urinate, to build a house, busy, and not yet."[40]

Some linguists have studied the influence which Nanjing Jianghuai Mandarin had on Ming dynasty guanhua/Mandarin.[41] Although the early Ming dynasty Mandarin/Guanhua was a koiné based on the Nanjing dialect, it was not entirely identical to it, with some non-Jianghuai characteristics being found in it. Francisco Varo advised that, to learn Chinese, one must acquire it from "Not just any Chinese, but only those who have the natural gift of speaking the Mandarin language well, such as those natives of the Province of Nan king, and of other provinces where the Mandarin tongue is spoken well.[42]

Jianghuai Mandarin, along with Northern Mandarin, formed the standard for Baihua before and during the Qing dynasty up until its replacement by modern Standard Mandarin. This Baihua was used by writers all over China, regardless of the dialect they spoke. Chinese writers who spoke other dialects had to use the grammar and vocabulary of Jianghuai and Northern Mandarin in order for the majority of Chinese to understand their writing. By contrast, Chinese who did not speak southern dialects would not be able to understand a Southern dialect's writing.[43]

Jianghuai also influenced the Beijing dialect. The Beijing dialect was not only influenced by various northern dialects, but also from Jianghuai.[44]

Dialect has also been used as a tool for regional identitity and politics in the Jiangbei and Jiangnan regions. While the city of Yangzhou was the center of trade, flourishing and prosperous, it was considered part of Jiangnan, which was known to be wealthy, even though Yangzhou was north of the Yangzi river. Once Yangzhou's wealth and prosperity were gone, it was then considered to be part of Jiangbei, the "backwater". After Yangzhou was removed from Jiangnan, its residents decided to no longer speak Jianghuai Mandarin, which was the dialect of Yangzhou. They instead replaced Mandarin with Wu and spoke Taihu Wu dialects. In Jiangnan itself, multiple dialects of Wu fought for the position of prestige dialect.[45]

History of expansion

Evidence from the Eastern Han dynasty period suggests the southern dialects included Jianghuai.[46]

During the Han dynasty, Old Chinese was divided into dialects, one of them was called "Chǔ-Jiāng-huái", 憐 lián meant "to love" in this dialect.[47]

The original dialect of Nanjing was the Wu dialect in the Eastern Jin. After the Wu Hu uprising, the Jin Emperor and many northern Chinese fled south. The new capital of Eastern Jin was created at Jiankang, where modern day Nanjing is today. It was during this time that the Nanjing dialect started to transform into Jianghuai Mandarin from Wu. Further events, such as Hou Jing's rebellions during the Liang dynasty and the Sui dynasty invasion of the Chen dynasty resulted in Jiankang's destruction. During the Ming dynasty, Ming Taizu relocated southerners from below Yangzi and made Nanjing the capital. During the Taiping Rebellion, Taiping rebels seized Nanjing and made it the capital of the Taiping Kingdom. The fighting resulted in the loss of the population of Nanjing. These events all played in role in forming the Nanjing dialect of today.[48]

Immigrants from Northern China during the middle of the Song dynasty moved south, bringing a speech type from which Northern Wu and Jianghuai reading patterns both derive from, these northern immigrants almost totally took over from the original inhabitants on the Yangtze's northern bank.[49] Jiang-huai, like other dialects of Chinese has two forms for pronouncing words, the Bai (common, vulgar), and the Wen (literary), the Bai forms appear to preserve more ancient forms of speech dating from before the mass migration in the Song dynasty which brought in the wen pronunciations.[50]

During the Ming dynasty, Wu speakers moved into Jianghuai-speaking regions, influencing the Tairu and Tongtai dialects of Jianghuai.[51]

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, Jianghuai speakers moved into Hui dialect areas.[52]

Jianghuai Mandarin is currently overtaking Wu as the language variety of multiple counties in Jiangsu. An example of this is Zaicheng Town in Lishui County, both Jianghuai and Wu were spoken in several towns in Lishui, with Wu being spoken by the greater amount of people in more towns than Jianghuai. Wu is called "old Zaicheng Speech", while Jianghuai dialect is called "new Zaicheng speech", with Wu being driven rapidly to extinction. Only old people use it to talk to relatives. The Jianghuai dialect was present there for about a century, even though all the surrounding areas around the town are Wu speaking. Jianghuai was always confined inside the town itself until the 1960s, in the present it is overtaking Wu.[53]

Subdialects

It is divided into three main branches, with several subbranches:

Of unclear placement in the classification above:

The Wuchang, Wuhan, and Tianmen dialects are spoken around the Chang-jiang lakes.[57]

Taixing dialect.[58][59] Taixing dialect uses the character "na" for "disposal construction".[60]

Anqing dialect.[61]

Tongcheng dialect (桐城话)[62]

"Tongdao, Ningyuan, Longshan, Yizhang, Zhijiang" are also all Jianghuai Mandarin dialects.[63]

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  32. ↑ Keith Johnson (2001). Elizabeth V. Hume, ed. Studies on the interplay of speech perception and phonology. Ohio State University, Dept. of Linguistics. p. 26. Retrieved 23 September 2011. But it is not the case that all current Mandarin dialects preserve this sandhi rule. For example, it is no longer in my dialect, Rugaohua, a Jianghuai Mandarin dialect. We may speculate that a certain generation of Rugaohua speakers
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  38. ↑ Ming studies, Issue 56. Ming studies. 2007. p. 107. Retrieved 23 September 2011. The first Ming emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang t^tcSj!, and a large number of his civil and military officials hailed from the Yangtze watershed and spoke dialects of the southern Mandarin or Jiang-Huai type, to which the dialect of Nanjing
  39. ↑ Ming studies, Issue 56. Ming studies. 2007. p. 108. Retrieved 23 September 2011. missionary transcriptions and of fifteenth century Korean Guanhua transcriptions in the Hangul alphabet, the two syllable types are clearly distinguished. Guanhua and Nanjingese were clearly different here. Thus, we may suspect that the early Ming Guanhua koine was in reality a linguistic amalgam of some sort, though it certainly had deep roots in the Jiang -Huai dialects. In 1421 the Ming political and administrative capital was moved from
  40. ↑ Michele Ruggieri, Matteo Ricci, John W. Witek (2001). John W. Witek, ed. Dicionário Português-Chinês. Volume 3 of Documenta (Instituto Português do Oriente) Volume 3 of Documenta (Biblioteca Nacional Macau). Biblioteca Nacional Portugal. p. 208. ISBN 972-565-298-3. Retrieved 23 September 2011. Words for pear, jujube, shirt, ax, hoe, jorful, to speak, to bargain, to know, to urinate, to build a house, busy, and not yet are those typical of the Chiang-Huai or Southern dialects, not the Northern Mandarin dialect.
  41. ↑ 何大安 (2002). 第三屆國際漢學會議論文集: 語言組. 南北是非 : 漢語方言的差異與變化. Volume 7 of 第三屆國際漢學會議論文集: 語言組. Zhong yang yan jiu yuan di san jie guo ji han xue hui yi lun wen ji. Yu yan zu. 中央硏究院語言學硏究所. p. 27. ISBN 957-671-936-4. Retrieved 23 September 2011. to consider how it may have been influenced by possible relationships and interactions with the Jiang-Huai dialects of the Nanking area. This, in our view , should be done by first undertaking historical studies of these dialects line feed character in |volume= at position 31 (help) (the University of California)
  42. ↑ 何大安 (2002). 第三屆國際漢學會議論文集: 語言組. 南北是非 : 漢語方言的差異與變化. Volume 7 of 第三屆國際漢學會議論文集: 語言組. Zhong yang yan jiu yuan di san jie guo ji han xue hui yi lun wen ji. Yu yan zu. 中央硏究院語言學硏究所. p. 27. ISBN 957-671-936-4. Retrieved 23 September 2011. Reading system definitely possesses features which are not typical of the Jiang-Huai group as a whole (Coblin Ms. 1,3)/ Careful reading of early descriptions tends to confirm this conclusion. For example, Varo's association of his Mandarin phonology with Nankingese was not absolute and unequivocal. We should recall his counsel that Guanhua be learned from "natives of the Province of Nan king, and of other provinces where the Mandarin tongue is spoken well" [emphasis added]. We find a similar view in Morrison's accounts. On the one hand he says in his dictionary (1815:xviii), "The pronunciation in this work, is rather what the Chinese call the Nanking dialect, than the Peking. line feed character in |volume= at position 31 (help) (the University of California)
  43. ↑ Ping Chen (1999). Modern Chinese: history and sociolinguistics (illustrated ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 82. ISBN 0-521-64572-7. Retrieved 23 September 2011. This is true not only of writers from the Jiang-Huai and Northern Mandarin areas , but also of writers from the other dialect ... Speakers of dialects other than Jiang- Huai or Northern Mandarin had to conform to the grammatical and
  44. ↑ Dingxu Shi (2004). Peking Mandarin. Volume 377 of Languages of the world: Materials. LINCOM EUROPA. p. 2. Retrieved 23 September 2011. It is most likely that a new dialect was formed on the basis of these members of the Northern Dialect, especially the Jianghuai Mandarin which was spoken in the Nanking area. If the population did not undergo drastic changes in later (the University of Michigan)
  45. ↑ Dorothy Ko (1994). Teachers of the inner chambers: women and culture in seventeenth-century China (illustrated, annotated ed.). Stanford University Press. p. 21. ISBN 0-8047-2359-1. Retrieved 23 September 2011. With the exclusion of Yangzhou came the denigration of its dialect, a variant of Jianghuai "Mandarin" (guanhua). The various Wu dialects from the Lake Tai area became the spoken language of choice, to the point of replacing guanhua in...
  46. ↑ W. South Coblin (1983). A handbook of Eastern Han sound glosses. Chinese University Press. p. 25. ISBN 962-201-258-2. Retrieved 23 September 2011. 343). This may indicate that Jiang-Huai was still part of the southern dialect area in late EH times. 4. Northern Dialects: These are the dialects of the You area and correspond to the northern dialects of the FY system
  47. ↑ Axel Schuessler (2007). ABC etymological dictionary of old Chinese. University of Hawaii Press. p. 354. ISBN 0-8248-2975-1. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
  48. ↑ Maria Kurpaska (2010). Chinese language(s): a look through the prism of The great dictionary of modern Chinese dialects. Volume 215 of Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs (illustrated ed.). Walter de Gruyter. p. 161. ISBN 3-11-021914-X. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
  49. ↑ University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies (2002). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Volume 65. The School. p. 536. Retrieved 23 September 2011. Where ordinary Jiang-Huai forms match the Northern Wii reading pronunciations, it is because they have a common origin in the speech types brought south by the mid-Song period northern immigrants. North of the Yangtze, where the indigenous population had been effectively replaced by newcomers, only the northern forms normally survive. South of the River, the northern forms becamea literary stratum in Wu grafted onto the older indigenous pronunciation (the University of Michigan)
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  53. ↑ Journal of Asian Pacific communication, Volume 16, Issues 1-2. Multilingual Matters. 2006. p. 336. Retrieved 23 September 2011. In Chinese dialectology, Lishui County is divided by the boundary between Jiang-Huai dialect and Wu dialect. In administrative distribution, eleven towns of the county lie in the Wu Dialect area and five in the Jiang-Huai Dialect area. The former includes 72.2% of the county's population; the latter 17.8% (Guo, 1995). The county seat is Zaicheng Town, also called Yongyang Town. The language varieties spoken in areas surrounding the town all belong to Wu dialect. Two varieties are spoken in the town, "the old Zaicheng Speech" and "the new Zaicheng Speech". The former is a variety of Wu Dialect, and the latter a Jiang-Huai Mandarin Dialect. The old dialect is disappearing. Its speakers, a minority of elders, use the variety only among family members. According to some interviewees over sixty years old, the new dialect has been spoken in the town area for about one hundred years. Before the 1960's, the new dialect was used only inside the town, which served as the county seat, therefore, it is called "Town Speech" or "Lishui Speech". (the University of Michigan)
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  58. ↑ Chaofen Sun, ed. (1997). Studies on the history of Chinese syntax. Journal of Chinese Linguistics,. p. 219. Retrieved 23 September 2011. the north of Jiangsu Province, near the Yangtze river. The Taixing dialect belongs to Jiang Huai Mandarin. It contains a morpheme with three allomorphs, a, nga and ga. As discussed in detail in Li (1957), the morpheme is used in a way similar to zhu, namely as a preposition meaning dao or or zai (depending
  59. ↑ Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla (2003). Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla, ed. The Sino-Tibetan languages. Volume 3 of Routledge language family series (illustrated ed.). Psychology Press. p. 90. ISBN 0-7007-1129-5. Retrieved 23 September 2011. However, in the Taixing dialect (Jiangsu, Jianghuai), it occurs after both Vl and v2,
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  63. ↑ Bangxin Ding, Ai-qin Yu, Anne O. Yue-Hashimoto (2005). 紀念李方桂先生百年冥誕論文集 "Yu yan ji yu yan xue" zhuan kan. Zhong yang yan jiu yuan yu yan xue yan jiu suo. p. 432. Retrieved 23 September 2011. From Yang (1974) examples can also be found, to a lesser degree, in the Xiang dialects (see section 3.6 below) as well as in other Hunan dialects such as Lixian ШШ, Sangzhi #ffi (Jianghuai Mandarin); Tongdao ШШ, Ningyuan Щ$, Longshan f!
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