2019/08/08 by Ting Zeng · 4 citations
Social Sciences · Psychology · Arts and Humanities · #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Linguistics and language evolution #China #History #Population #Chinese population #Linguistics #Demography #Ancient history #Geography #Sociology #Philosophy #Biology #Archaeology
paper · doi:10.1017/s002510031800035x
published in Journal of the International Phonetic Association 50(2), 258-281 (Cambridge University Press)
openalex publication_date 2019/08/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/19
Xiangxiang ([ɕjaŋ 44 ɕjaŋ 44 ]) is a Chinese dialect spoken by a population of 885,552 in the urban area of Xiangxiang (CN-430381), a city located in the centre of Hunan Province, China (Jiang 2008: 6). It belongs to Xiang ([ɕjaŋ 44 ], ISO: 639-3: [hsn]), which is one of the ten major dialect groups of Chinese (LAC 2012). 1 Xiang has two main subgroups, New Xiang and Old Xiang (Zhou & You 1985, Yuan 2001), and Xiangxiang is often cited as a representative dialect of Old Xiang (H. Bao 2001, Jiang 2008). 2 Rather than denoting different historical stages, ‘old’ and ‘new’ reflect more and less conservative varieties among contemporary Xiang dialect speakers. Some impressionistic descriptions of the sounds and tones of Xiangxiang dialect will be found in Chao & Wu (1974), S. Zeng (2001) and Jiang (2008).