Astudy Of Sound Of Xingzi Dialect

Xingzi county, located in northern Jiangxi province. The northern area of the county is Lushan mountain; and the south, is the largest freshwater lake; the northwest connects the Lushan mountain region of Jiujiang city and Jiujiang county. Xingzi dialect, as well as the dialects of the southwest counties of De’an, Yongxiu, and the dialects of the eastern counties of Hukou, Duchang, belong to Changjing of Gan dialect. Its daily language keeps the basic characteristics of the language of Gan dialect, while being effected by the such Jianghuai as the dialects of jiujiang, thus forming the Xingzi dialect of unique characteristics.Xingzi dialect has22initials, of which eight voiced, doesn’t send spirit and after the fricative voiced; and46finals, double head vowel intead of pursed-mouths; and7tones:ping, the Qu at the Yin and Yang, Yin Qu to Shang and Xia, Ru tone margins disappear.There are some phenomena of Combination pronunciation, and variant oral and written pronunciation. Xingzi is slightly long in north and south, known as the Up and Down Countryside. The Down Countryside in certain degree is influenced by Jiujiang dialect of Jianghuai language, while the Up Countryside by De’an dialect of Gan language.To date, there is no monographic study in the sound of Xing dialect. This paper, on the basis of fieldword, makes an overall and systematic description of the sound system of Xingzi dialect, and a deep analysis of its phonological features; At the same time, it compares the sound system of Xingzi dialect with that of late middle Chinese in "Guangyun" in the vertical diachronic plane, and with that of mandarin and surrounding Gan languages and Jiujiang dialect, trying to find the contexts history of Xingzi dialect development changes, corresponding relation and the basic law.