| Yunfu Cantonese | |
|---|---|
| 云浮白话 / 雲浮白話 | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Yunfu, Guangdong |
Native speakers | (400,000 cited 1995)[1] |
| Han characters | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
Yunfu Cantonese or Yunfu vernacular[2] (simplified Chinese: 云浮白话; traditional Chinese: 雲浮白話) is a dialect of Yue Chinese spoken in Yunfu, Guangdong, China. It is classified as a variety of Yuehai Yue,[1] or in more recent classification, Guangfu Yue.[3]
This section is mostly based on the variety spoken in Yuncheng.
The inventory of initials consists of 20 consonants (including the null initial):[4]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | labialized | ||||||
| Stop | plain | p 爸 |
t 打 |
k 家 |
kʷ[A] 怪 |
(ʔ)[B] 矮 | |
| aspirated | pʰ 怕 |
tʰ 他 |
kʰ 茄 |
kʷʰ[A] 葵 |
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| Affricate | plain | t͡s 坐 |
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| aspirated | t͡sʰ 初 |
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| Fricative | f 花 |
s 社 |
h 下 | ||||
| Nasal | m 妈 / 媽 |
n[C] 拿 |
ŋ 我 |
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| Approximant | l[C] 罗 / 羅 |
j[A] 野 |
w[A] 蛙 |
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Traditional accounts consider there to be eight tone categories:[6][7]
| Syllable type | Open syllables | Checked syllables | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traditional tone name | dark flat 阴平 / 陰平 |
light flat 阳平 / 陽平 |
dark rising 阴上 / 陰上 |
light rising 阳上 / 陽上 |
departing 去声 / 去聲 |
dark entering 阴入 / 陰入[A] |
mid entering 中入[B] |
light entering 陽入 / 陽入 |
| Description | high level | low falling | mid rising | low rising | mid level | high level | mid level | low level |
| Example | 诗 / 詩 | 时 / 時 | 史 | 市 | 试 / 試 | 识 / 識 | 泄 | 食 |
| Tone letter (Chao tone numerals) | ˥ (55), ˥˧ (53)[C] | ˨˩ (21) | ˧˥ (35) | ˨˧ (23)[D] | ˧ (33) | ˥ (55) | ˧ (33) | ˨ (22) |