The Research On Speech Sounds Of Hakka Dialects Of Longtansi

The Hakka inhabitants in Longtansi immigrated in Sichuan province at the beginning of Qing Dynasty. Since that time, they have retained the basic framework of Hakka dialects and accepted a lot of new changes influenced by Chengdu dialects at the same time. It is said that the inhabitants in Longtansi mainly come from Mei county of Guangdong province. But after carried out investigation thoroughly in Longtansi many times, the author discovered that there are many differences between the Hakka dialects of Longtansi and Mei County's.There are 23 initials, 16 finals and 5 tones in the Hakkas of Longtansi. From the historical point of view, Hakka dialects' laws of phonetic evolution can be discovered contrasted with Guangyun, including 12 initials' features, 16 finals' features and 5 tones' features. From the synchronic point of view, the Hakka dialects' characters in initial, final and tone can be found out that it is influenced not only from the resource of Hakka dialects' but also under the Chengdu dialects'.It's the Wuhua and Xingning in the east of Guangdong province, in the inhabitants outside of Sichuan province, which is mostly similar to the Hakka of Longtansi in the phonetic characteristics.The author confirms that, â… , Hakka of Longtansi is a kind of syncretic dialects, whose phonetic characteristics mostly close to the Hakka's of Wuhua and Xingning in the east of Guangdong province as well as absorbs some Hakka dialects' features in the west of Fujian and the old Hakka in the south of Jiangxi. â…¡, language changes in Hakka dialects of Longtansi influenced by Chengdu dialects mainly can be two categories, mutation and gradual alteration. â…¢,according to the syllabic structure, the initial gets biggest, the final a little, and the tone less. â…£, forefathers who spoke Hakka dialects in Longtansi mostly came from the east part of Guangdong, Wuhua and Xingning. â…¤, the formation of Speech Island needs four factors, the relatively isolated and steady community, the strong community consciousness, the language habits and the obvious differences in dialects.