A Study On The Use And Endangerance Of The Shanghang Center Town Dialect In Fujian Province

This thesis studies Shanghang downtown dialect,where people in Shanghang downtown said.The author made 365 words,426 vocabularies and<The questionnaire of Shanghang downtown dialect usage>and use it to investigate.The thesis includes three main aspects:The first is dialect's initials,finals,and tones.The second is vocabularies:the trend of replacing and simplifying,the trend of closing gap between Shanghang downtown dialect and Mandarin.The third is discusse the Shanghang hakka dialect from sociolinguistics aspect,including the frequency of speaking dialect and the language attitude in Shanghang downtown.According to the analyses above,we identified the Shanghang downtown dialect the Fourth level:endangered dialect.